Practise ACVIM General Examination with a short sample and answer explanations. These are independent learning materials, not official exam questions or a pass prediction.
Exam outline and official sources
American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM) · DACVIM denotes Diplomate status, rather than one examination title. This guide maps the workbook label to the ACVIM General Examination, which the current certification manual requires across ACVIM specialties. It covers selected concepts from both posted versions, GEN-SAIM and GEN-LAIM, without replacing the separate Specialty Examinations. The governing Certification and Residency Training Manual is updated July 1, 2026 and effective July 1, 2026–June 30, 2027. The blueprints linked from the current 2027 General Exam page do not state a revision or effective date.
This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.
- ACVIM Certification and Residency Training Manual 2026–2027
- General Exam | ACVIM
- General – Small Animal Internal Medicine Exam (GEN-SAIM): Test Specifications
- General – Large Animal Internal Medicine Exam (GEN-LAIM): Test Specifications
- ACVIM consensus guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of myxomatous mitral valve disease in dogs
- ECEIM consensus statement on equine metabolic syndrome
- Canine Hypoadrenocorticism Diagnostic Testing and Monitoring
- ACVIM consensus statement on the diagnosis and treatment of chronic hepatitis in dogs
- European College of Equine Internal Medicine Consensus Statement—Equine Gastric Ulcer Syndrome in Adult Horses
- 2021 ISFM Consensus Guidelines on the Collection and Administration of Blood and Blood Products in Cats
- ACVIM consensus statement on the diagnosis of immune-mediated hemolytic anemia in dogs and cats
- IRIS Staging System
- ECEIM consensus statement on equine kidney disease
- International veterinary epilepsy task force consensus proposal: diagnostic approach to epilepsy in dogs
- UC Davis Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory: EPM Test Results Interpretation
- WSAVA Nutritional Assessment Guidelines
- 2022 ISFM Consensus Guidelines on Management of the Inappetent Hospitalised Cat
- Inflammatory Airway Disease of Horses—Revised Consensus Statement
- OpenStax: Gas Exchange across Respiratory Surfaces
- ISCAID guidelines for the diagnosis and management of bacterial urinary tract infections in dogs and cats
- FDA: Bioavailability Studies Submitted in NDAs and INDs—General Considerations
- CDC Principles of Epidemiology: Lesson 5, Appendix A
- CDC: Rapid Diagnostic Testing for Influenza—Information for Clinical Laboratory Directors
ACVIM General Examination
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A dog with confirmed myxomatous mitral valve disease has never had congestive heart failure. Its murmur is grade 4/6, LA:Ao is 1.9, normalized left ventricular diastolic diameter is 1.9, and radiographs show enlargement exceeding the breed-adjusted reference range without pulmonary edema. Which ACVIM stage best fits?
ACVIM General Examination
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Cardiology
SAIM-specific: historical heart failure in staging
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