Board Examination 

Exam Update

The ECVS Exam 2021 takes place 3-5 July 2021

UK, Germany, France

Exam Documents and Application Process

ECVS Examination Guide

The Examination Guide has been updated in September 2019 and is valid from the 2020 exam onwards.

Residents eligible to sit the exam will be notified by the Office during autumn of the year preceding the exam. To sign up for the exam, candidates need to submit the online application (via 'Your ECVS') and send a scan of the signed and dated confidentiality form to exam@ecvs.org by October 25^th of the year preceding the exam.
The extraordinary (COVID-19) registration deadline for the 2021 exam is 30 November 2020.

The online application via 'Your ECVS' is only open to candidates who have been invited to sit the exam. If you believe you should be able to apply for the exam, but cannot access the online registration, please contact exam@ecvs.org.

Reading lists for 2021 exam:

• Large animals
  • includes new (2^nd, 2019) edition of Nixon's Equine Fracture Repair
• Small animals
  • remains unchanged

Exam Preparation

Details and information about the ECVS exam, its individual parts, marking, exam preparation etc. are available from the > ECVS Exam Preparation presentation.

Please note that certain aspects of the technical set-up may be different for the 2021 exam from what is described in the presentation. All exam candidates will be informed of the to be expected exam conditions in due course.

Mock Exams

The mock exams present a selection of questions from all exam parts for preparation purposes.
> Instructions how to access the mock exams

Link to ECVS Mock Exams

Model answers to the mock exam questions:

Small Animal Case-based       Small Animal Practical       Large Animal Case-based       Large Animal Practical

Exam Schedule

Please expect the 2021 exam to be conducted over 3 days. The exact schedule will be communicated to all candidates in due course.

The schedule will be defined after the registration deadline and in alignment with expected group sizes and potential social distancing guidelines.

Getting Around

The following tram stops are close to the Vetsuisse faculty (Tierspital):

• Tierspital (closest stop): trams no. 7 (black) and no. 9 (purple)
• Milchbuck (walk through the Irchel park to the clinic): trams no. 7 (black), no. 9 (purple), no. 10 (pink, from / to the airport) and no. 14 (blue)
• Uni Irchel (walk through the Irchel park to the clinic): trams no. 9 (purple) and no. 10 (pink)

For further information, visit the Zurich public transport webpage > ZVV.

Campus map:

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