Control of Communicable Diseases Manual by Site includes access to MMWR
"The Environmental Health and Toxicology section includes nine subcategories: Air; Land/soil; Water; Waste; Emergency Preparedness and Response; Occupational Health; Vectors; Radiation; and Toxicology. An equal number of questions will be drawn from each subcategory in the multiple choice section of the exam. The Toxicology subcategory draws upon the principles of toxicology and toxic substances in general. Applied knowledge of toxicology is incorporated into many of the subcategories areas."
Human-Animal Medicine Clinical Approaches to Zoonoses, Toxicants, and Other Shared Health Risks by 
Public Health Management of Disasters: the Practice Guide by 
Environmental Engineering: Vol. 1: Water, Wastewater, Soil and Groundwater Treatment and Remediation by 
Environmental Engineering: Vol. 2: Prevention and Response to Water-, Food-, Soil-, and Air-Borne Disease and Illness by 
Environmental Engineering: Vol. 3: Environmental health and Safety for Municipal Infrastructure, Land Use and Planning, and Industry by 
Casarett & Doull's Toxicology: the Basic Science of Poisons, 9th Edition by
"The Epidemiology and Biostatistics section of the multiple choice exam includes questions that are drawn from 10 subcategories: Data distributions; Diagnostic tests; Measures of disease occurrence and measures of effect; Analytical study designs and measures of association; Biostatistics; Outbreak investigation; Causality; Basic epidemiology concepts; Economics; and Surveillance and sampling designs.
"...Biostatistics--The ACVPM General Exam will require biostatistical knowledge that is essential for a diplomate to operate within the preventive veterinary medicine fields. Basic biostatistics and the statistics used in epidemiologic studies and investigations will be the foci. General biostatistics books will provide the underlying knowledge required but should be supplemented with an analytic epidemiology text."
Veterinary Epidemiologic Research by 
Veterinary Clinical Epidemiology: from Patient to Population by 
Fundamentals of Biostatistics by 
Primer of Biostatistics by "Food science in the ‘Farm to Fork” spectrum is essential for a diplomate to operate within the preventive veterinary medicine fields. The Food Safety section includes nine subcategories: Agents and sources of foodborne illness (including microbiological, virology, chemical, toxicological, and radiological); Preharvest; Postharvest and Processing; Detection methods and analytics; Food Defense; Food Security (as it relates to Food Safety); Product safety and consumer exposures; Outbreaks, epidemiology, and surveillance; Policy and regulation guidance, controls, and compliance; and Current Topics (e.g. biotechnology, nanotechnology, antimicrobial resistance, global health)."
Websites provide key reference materials and current topics:
Including food protection topics; MMWR; PulseNet; FoodNet
Concentrating on current topics and articles related to Food Protection
Review food science basics in a food science text and current focus areas and hot topics in journals such as the Journal of Food Protection and above cited references. No specific text is required.
Review basics on foodborne outbreak investigations and calculations in an appropriate food science or epidemiology textbook. No specific text required.
"The Infectious Diseases section includes eight subcategories: Immunology and Pathogenesis; Transmission; Pharmaceuticals; Biologics; Diagnostics and Chemicals; Bacterial, Viral, Rickettsial, Parasitic, TSE, and Mycotic Agents; Foreign Animal Diseases; and General."
Veterinary Medicine. Volume 1: a Textbook of the Diseases of Cattle, Horses, Sheep, Pigs, and Goats by 
Manual of Diagnostic Tests and Vaccines for Terrestrial Animals by (Basic Immunology and Infectious Agent Textbooks – Current Edition)
Veterinary Immunology by 
Maxey-Rosenau-Last Public Health and Preventive Medicine: Fifteenth Edition by 
Principles and Practice of Public Health Surveillance by 
CDC Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication by 
Public Health AdministrationPrinciples for Population-Based Management by This guide contains the list of books and journals recommended as study materials for the American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine (ACVPM) examination.
Residents are responsible for ensuring they are using the correct edition of a book for their exam.
Please ask your librarian, mentor, or specialty board examination committee if questions arise.
"[This] list of study references is NOT a definitive, exhaustive list for preparing for the ACVPM examinations in the five
subject areas:
"Use this list as a guide, in as much as it represents a compromise between brevity and completeness.
"Supplementary titles are provided for those who wish to do additional reading.
"You are encouraged to read as much additional material as possible. Reading the current scientific and
professional literature (ProMed, JAVMA, MMWR, Lancet, NEJM, Science, etc.) is also necessary to properly prepare for the examinations."
Source: American College of Veterinary Preventive Medicine Study References.
This resource updated: 9/27/2017
Source reading list reviewed: 9/27/2017
Source reading list updated by specialty board: 8/7/2017
