American Board of Veterinary Ophthalmology (ABVO), the certification body for the American College of Veterinary Ophthalmologists (ACVO) · Verified against the official examination page on 2026-10-20: Nature and Scope of the Examination, indexed as updated October 2025, and the currently linked Exam Specification Blueprint, whose filename identifies 2020. The blueprint gives no internal effective date. DACVO is the resulting diplomate credential; the examination's official name is ABVO Certifying Examination.

This original 20-question sample covers selected topics across the outline. It does not reproduce official exam questions or cover every tested topic.

• ACVO Certification
• ABVO Examination
• Exam Specification Blueprint
• Nature and Scope of the Examination — October 2025 update
• ABVO Practical Examination — Intraocular Surgery
• ABVO Practical Examination — Extraocular Surgery
• University of Illinois — Indolent Ulcerations in Dogs
• ACVO — Dry Eye Disease or Keratoconjunctivitis Sicca
• ACVO — Common Ocular Tests
• ACVO — Corneal Ulcer
• UC Davis Comparative Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences Laboratory — Research
• Cornell University Hospital for Animals — Ophthalmology
• ACVO — Glaucoma
• ACVO — Learn More About the Eye Lens & Cataracts
• ACVO Vision for Animals Foundation — Sudden Acquired Retinal Degeneration Syndrome
• UC Davis — Orbital Disease
• ACVO — Cherry Eye
• ACVO — Feline Ocular Herpes
• Sandmeyer and Leis — Diagnostic Ophthalmology, May 2024, 65(5):511–513
• Canadian Veterinary Journal — May 2024 contents
• A challenging case: Uveitis and secondary glaucoma in a cat
• Cornell Feline Health Center — Hypertension
• ACVO — Corneal Sequestrum
• The causes of glaucoma in cats
• UC Davis — Complex Surgery Saves Horse's Eye After Fungal Infection
• UC Davis — Equine Recurrent Uveitis
• UC Davis — Ocular Squamous Cell Carcinoma
• UC Davis — Treating Corneal Ulcers
• ACVO — Pharmacological Toxicology
• Texas A&M Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Laboratory — Pinkeye in cattle
• Orthopedic Foundation for Animals — Eye Disease Glossary
• Cornell Feline Health Center — Feline Cataracts
• Chen and colleagues — A novel DDB2 mutation causes defective recognition of UV-induced DNA damages and prevalent equine squamous cell carcinoma
• University of Illinois — Canine Glaucoma
• Plummer, MacKay and Gelatt — Comparison of dorzolamide–timolol with timolol or dorzolamide monotherapy in glaucomatous dogs
• DailyMed — Dorzolamide hydrochloride ophthalmic solution, Sandoz prescribing information