Class of 2029 Fall Book List
DVM TEXTBOOK/EQUIPMENT LIST
FALL 2025 – Class of 2029
Note: As of 2024, VetText will no longer be selling textbooks directly.
The booklist below has been updated featuring recommended links to external vendors for your convenience. These links are provided as suggestions, and you are welcome to explore other websites for purchasing the books listed below. There are copies of most required text in the cubes and online copies are available on your one drive.
VM603 – Veterinary Science: Research and Methods
No text needed
VM606 – Veterinary Immunology
- Janeway's Immunobiology, 10th Edition by Kenneth M. Murphy, Casey Weaver, Leslie J. Berg. ISBN 978-0393884906
- Callahan & Yates, Basic Veterinary Immunology, 2014. University Press of Colorado. ISBN 9781607322184
VM610 – Foundations of Veterinary Medicine I
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See **Required Equipment & Supplies List below
- Amazon
- Yin’s Low Stress Handling, Restraint & Behavior Modification of Dogs & Cats.1st edition. Cattledog Publishing. 2009. ISBN: 9780964151840.
VM616 – Functional Anatomy
VM618 – Physiology
- Guyton & Hall, Textbook of Medical Physiology. 12th edition. Elsevier. ISBN 978-1416045748
VM618 – Histology
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- Bacha & Bacha, Color Atlas of Veterinary Histology, 3rd edition. Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 978-0-4709-5851-3.
- Gartner and Hiatt, Color Atlas and Text of Histology, 7thedition, 2017 Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins. ISBN-13: 978-1496346735
- Dellmann, Textbook of Veterinary Histology. 6th 2007. Wiley Blackwell. ISBN 9780781741484
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Professor’s Note: Bacha & Bacha and Dellman’s are veterinary specific; Gartner & Hiatt is human specific. Any single histology atlas or text is helpful for self-study. These sources are only recommended, not required. Atlases are a source of histological images whereas texts provide detailed subject descriptions and schematics.
REQUIRED EQUIPMENT/SUPPLIES:
- Lab Coat– your coat will be supplied by the Dean’s Office.
- Blue Embroidered Clinic Smock
- This smock will be required for activities during Foundations, and for any activities in the Veterinary Teaching Hospital.
- Examination Gloves
- Gloves will be required during anatomy dissection lab.
- Dissection Kit
- Our kit includes the following and works well for the course:
- Mayo Scissors Straight 6-1/2"
- Metzenbaum Scissors Curved 5-1/2"
- Rat Tooth Forceps
- Brown Adson Forceps
- Dissection Probe
- Kelly Hemostats Straight 5-1/2"
- Mayo Hegar Needleholders
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Scalpel Handle #3
- Iris scissors are not included this kit but many students have recommended purchasing one separately.
- Stethoscope - A stethoscope will be needed for activities during Foundations as well as any activities in the Veterinary Teaching Hospital.