At Louisville Veterinary Specialty & Emergency Services, all our specialist veterinarians are Board Certified or Residency Trained, ensuring the best care for your pet.

Specialists:

A board-certified veterinary specialist has completed up to 12 years of college education and training. Louisville Veterinary Specialty & Emergency Services has numerous board-certified specialists on staff. Each has graduated from a four-year veterinary program and then has gone on to complete an additional four years of training in an internship and residency program. To become board-certified, these candidates must also pass rigorous training and testing requirements.   

Residency Trained Doctors:

Is a veterinarian who has completed all of the requirements for board certification and is currently either awaiting their exam results of they are waiting to take their specialty exam which is typically only offered annually.  LVSES offers residency trained doctors in the following areas:

• Surgery
• Dermatology  

Staff Doctors:

At LVSES, we have several veterinarians on our emergency staff who have completed his or her one year internship in small animal internal medicine and surgery. These staff doctors work with board certified staff specialists who are on call every hour of every day.