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VETERINARY SCIENCE IN AUSTRALIA
Information for Overseas’ Qualified Veterinarians
April 2022
INTRODUCTION
This booklet has been prepared by the Australasian Veterinary Boards Council
Inc for the information and guidance of overseas-trained veterinarians who are
resident in Australia and for those interested in migrating to Australia. The AVBC
regularly up-dates the information.
This booklet is intended as a guide only and is The AVBC has been approved by the Minister for
not legally binding on any of the bodies listed. Immigration in accordance with the Migration
The information in this booklet is believed to Regulations 1994 as the assessing authority for the
be accurate at the time of printing; however, occupation Veterinarian (ANZSCO Code 234711).
requirements may change from time to time.
If you wish to apply to migrate to Australia as
Australia has a federal system of government a Veterinarian under the points-based skilled
and is divided into six independently governed migration program, you may need to apply to
States and two Territories. As in most countries, have your skills assessed by the AVBC prior to
the practice of a profession in Australia requires submitting your visa application. The AVBC will
evidence of an appropriate level of education assess your skills as “suitable” or “not suitable”
and practical experience. for your nominated occupation against the
requirements it has established.
Each State and Territory has separate
legislation covering the recognition of veterinary If the type of visa you are applying for requires a
qualifications. It is the law in Australia that if you skills assessment, it must be included with your
wish to practice veterinary medicine you must visa application to the Australian Government’s
be registered with the local State or Territory Department of Home Affairs.
Veterinary Registration Board.
Please note that you can only apply for a skills
The steps that you will need to take to obtain assessment if your primary veterinary qualifications
registration as a Veterinarian in Australia are fall into the category of qualifications immediately
explained on page 3 in “Entry of Overseas Qualified acceptable to Veterinary Registration Boards
Veterinarians into the Profession in Australia”. and you are already registered with one of the
Veterinary Registration Boards.
To migrate to Australia under a points-tested
skilled migration category, one of the requirements Successfully migrating to Australia as a Veterinarian
is to nominate an occupation from the list of is no guarantee of employment in Australia as a
eligible skilled occupations which fits your skills Veterinarian. Requirements additional to those for
and qualifications, and have your skills and migration may need to be met, and you will need
qualifications assessed by the relevant assessing to contact the relevant organisation for advice.
authority.
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The AVBC can only provide advice on applying
for a skills assessment. AVBC does not provide
VETERINARY EDUCATION IN
information about how to migrate to Australia. AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
Information is available from the Australian
Currently there are seven AVBC accredited
Government’s Department of Home Affairs www.
veterinary schools in Australia and one in New
homeaffairs.gov.au.
Zealand. They are at the University of Melbourne
(Victoria), University of Queensland (Gatton,
Qld), University of Sydney (New South Wales),
VETERINARY SCIENCE Charles Sturt University (Wagga Wagga, NSW),
Murdoch University (Western Australia), James
IN AUSTRALIA Cook University (Townsville, Qld), the University of
Veterinary science is a well established profession Adelaide (South Australia) and Massey University in
in Australia. There are over 13,000 veterinary New Zealand.
professionals in Australia. The majority, about 70%, The qualifications awarded by these schools satisfy
are in private practice, caring for pets, livestock the formal academic requirements for registration
animals, horses, and wildlife and exotic animals. by all of the Australian and New Zealand veterinary
Other fields veterinarians work are corporate registration boards. The contact details of the
veterinary medicine including the pharmaceutical veterinary schools and registration boards are
industry, and government agencies which work on listed at the end of this booklet.
the prevention and control of diseases that may
affect both animals and people, the environment, Current veterinary education in Australia and New
and food sources. Veterinary professionals also Zealand emphasises diverse training so that the
work in the research and higher education sectors profession is meeting the needs of society. This
and are employed by animal welfare agencies includes training in sophisticated techniques for
ensuring animal health and welfare nationally and diagnosis and treatment of disease, public health
internationally. and preventive medicine, and animal welfare.
There have been recent
developments to : ENTRY OF OVERSEAS
• encourage the establishment of more and QUALIFIED VETERINARIANS
bigger private practices in the cities and
towns to care for the growing population of
INTO THE PROFESSION
companion animals; IN AUSTRALIA
• stimulate the development of livestock If you are an overseas-trained veterinarian, there
and herd health programs in rural areas by are three ways in which you can enter the profession
private practitioners; in Australia:
• stimulate specialisation in many areas of 1. by immediate recognition of your overseas
veterinary science and the establishment veterinary qualifications;
of registers of specialists to advise general
practitioners; and 2. by completion of a primary veterinary
degree at an Australian or New Zealand
• maintain and improve standards in the veterinary school; or
fields of veterinary public health and
veterinary preventive medicine. 3. by successfully completing the Australasian
Veterinary Examination (AVE).
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1. Qualifications immediately If you wish to apply for a skills assessment from
recognised for the purposes of AVBC for migration purposes then you must first
be registered with an Australian State or Territory
registration in Australia registration board. Detailed information about
If your veterinary qualification appears on applying for a skills assessment can be found on
the list of “Qualifications recognised by the AVBC website.
AVBC as providing the holder with eligibility
to apply for registration as a veterinary
surgeon in Australia and New Zealand”, then 2. Qualifications not immediately
you are eligible to apply for registration with acceptable for registration in Australia
an Australian veterinary registration board If your qualifications are not acceptable for
without further examination. For example, if immediate registration, you can either apply to
you have - enrol at an Australian or New Zealand university,
• a primary veterinary qualification obtained where you may be granted credit for your overseas
via an Australasian Veterinary Boards studies, and complete the veterinary science
Council (AVBC) accredited veterinary course or you can apply to take the Australasian
school; Veterinary Examination.
• a qualification from an American Veterinary
Medical Association (AVMA) accredited
veterinary school plus the NAVLE;
3. Australasian Veterinary Examination
(AVE)
• a qualification from a Royal College of
The AVE has been designed to assess, for
Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) accredited
registration purposes, the veterinary knowledge
veterinary school in the UK and South
and clinical competences of overseas qualified
Africa;
veterinarians whose veterinary qualifications are
OR not immediately acceptable for registration in
Australia or New Zealand.
• you have membership of the RCVS by
passing the RCVS Statutory Membership
Examination;
• you have successfully completed the
AUSTRALASIAN VETERINARY
Educational Commission for Foreign EXAMINATION (AVE)
Veterinary Graduates ® (ECFVG®) plus the
NAVLE; PROCEDURES
The examination consists of the following
• you have successfully completed the
American Association of Veterinary State
components:
Boards Assessment Veterinary Education • Eligibility Assessment – assessment of
Equivalence (PAVE) plus the NAVLE; qualifications, English language proficiency
and associated documents to determine
• you have successfully completed the
eligibility to undertake the AVE;
Canadian National Examining Board
Certificate of Qualification plus the NAVLE. • Preliminary (MCQ) Examination – consisting
of two papers, in multiple-choice question
then you are eligible to apply for registration
(MCQ) format; and
without further examination. For information about
registration, you should contact the veterinary • Final (Clinical) Examination
registration board in the State or Territory in which
you wish to practice.
For the full list of the veterinary science
“Qualifications recognised by AVBC”, please see
the AVBC website www.avbc.asn.au .
4ELIGIBILITY ASSESSMENT ENGLISH LANGUAGE
You can take the AVE only if you have been formally REQUIREMENT
assessed by AVBC as meeting the eligibility criteria
to sit the examination. You need to: A comprehensive knowledge of English is essential
to the practice of veterinary science in Australia.
• hold a degree or diploma awarded after If your first language is not English, ie you were
at least four years of study at a veterinary not born and (primary and secondary-school)
school which appears on the directory of educated in an approved English speaking
AVMA ECFVG®-listed veterinary Colleges country, you will need to have achieved the
of the World OR at a school which was required minimum scores in one of the following
part of a college or university listed in the English language tests:
“World List of Universities”; and
• a B pass or higher or a score of 350 or
• be registered, licensed or eligible to be higher in each section of the Occupational
recognised as a veterinarian of good English Test (OET); or
standing in the country in which you
studied your primary veterinary degree or • a score of at least band 7 in each
first worked as a veterinarian; and section of the academic version of the
International English Language Testing
• hold a current pass to the required System (IELTS) test; or
standard in the OET, the IELTS (academic)
the TOEFL-iBT® or the PTE Academic • a score of at least 24 in Listening, 24 in
to the standard required by AVBC. An Reading, 27 in Writing and 23 in Speaking in
exemption may apply if you are a native the Test of English as a Foreign Language
speaker of English, born and educated in (TOEFL-iBT®); or
the UK, Ireland, Canada, USA, Australia, • a score of at least 65 in each of the four
New Zealand or South Africa. communicative skills (listening, reading,
writing an speaking) of the PTE Academic.
The required standard must be achieved in the
one test sitting. Should you fail to achieve the
standard in a single test sitting, you must re-sit an
entire English language test. The AVBC does not
permit re-sits of sub-sections of English language
tests.
The currency of an English language test result
is three years. The test must be re-taken after
that time.
Please refer to the AVBC English language skills
standard which you will find on the AVBC website.
Information about applying for the OET, IELTS
(academic), TOEFL-iBT® or PTE Academic can be
obtained from the English language test providers.
Their website addresses are listed below.
Veterinary Science in Australia - Apr 2022 5Occupational English Test (OET) PTE Academic
The OET is administered by Cambridge Boxhill The Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE
Language Assessment, a venture between Academic) is a computer-based test which
Cambridge Assessment English and Box Hill assesses listening, reading, speaking and writing.
Institute. The test includes written, listening,
For more information about PTE Academic,
reading and speaking sections and is held in
please refer to the Pearson PTE Academic
Australia and overseas.
website www.pearsonpte.com
For information about the OET, please refer to the
OET Centre website at:
www.occupationalenglishtest.org
Other Useful Information
Tel: + 61 3 8658 3963 Australian residents can obtain information about
English language learning programs in Australia
from:
International English Language
• Centrelink - Services Australia
Testing System (IELTS) - academic
module • Department of Home Affairs
• Adult Migrant English Program (AMEP)
IELTS provides an assessment of whether providers
candidates are ready to study or train in the
medium of English. It is readily available at test • Technical and Further Education (TAFE)
centres around the world. colleges
You need to sit the academic (not the general) • Migration Resource Centres (MRC)
module of the test. • IELTS
Band scores are recorded on a test report form • OET
showing overall ability as well as performance in
listening, reading, writing and speaking. • TOEFL-iBT®
For information about IELTS Academic, please • PTE Academic
refer to the IELTS website at:
www.ielts.com.au
AVE PRELIMINARY
Test of English as a Foreign Language (MCQ) EXAMINATION
- internet-Based Test (TOEFL-iBT®) (computer-based delivery)
You must pass the Eligibility Assessment including
The TOEFL-iBT® test is administered by the
the English language requirement in order to be
Educational Testing Service (ETS); it is an internet-
eligible to sit the Preliminary (MCQ) Examination.
based test.
The Preliminary Examination consists of two
The test measures a candidate’s ability to use and
papers in multiple choice question (MCQ) format.
understand English at the university level. The test
Paper 1 has 120 questions and Paper 2 has 100
measures reading, listening, speaking and writing
questions. The questions are designed to test
skills.
your general knowledge of veterinary science and
For more information about TOEFL-iBT®, please clinical judgement.
refer to the ETS/TOEFL website at
Further detail can be found in the
https://www.ets.org/toefl “Information for AVE Candidates” booklet
which is available from the AVBC website
www.avbc.asn.au The booklet also contains
sample questions.
6AVE FINAL (CLINICAL) AVE CERTIFICATE
EXAMINATION If you successfully complete the AVE you will be
issued with a Certificate. This entitles you to apply
You must pass the AVE Preliminary (MCQ) for registration with any Australian State, Territory
Examination in order to be eligible to sit the Final or New Zealand Registration Board. The Certificate
(Clinical) Examination. The Final Examination will be sent direct to you. You must present the
is held over five days and is conducted in an Certificate to the registration board in the State or
Australian veterinary school. You will be examined Territory in which you intend to practise or to the
at the same level as recent graduates from an VCNZ if in New Zealand.
Australian or New Zealand veterinary school.
Once you are registered in Australia or New Zealand
The format of the examination is described fully in you will have the same rights and responsibilities as
the “Information for AVE Candidates” booklet. all other registered veterinarians in Australia or New
Zealand.
EXAMINATION VENUES
AND TIMING HOW TO APPLY
The AVE Preliminary (MCQ) Examination is held The application forms for a Skills Assessment
once a year, usually in April. It can be sat at a or for an Assessment of Eligibility to Undertake
number of venues in Australia and at some the AVE are available from the AVBC website
overseas venues, including New Zealand. The www.avbc.asn.au .
closing date for applications is 8 February.
Australasian Veterinary
The AVE Final (Clinical) Examination is held
Boards Council Inc (AVBC)
only in Australia, usually in November each
year. The closing date for applications is Tel: +61 3 9620 7844
1 September. (An additional clinical examination General email: admin@avbc.asn.au
session may sometimes be offered mid-year at
AVE Coordinator email: ave@avbc.asn.au
the discretion of the AVE Committee.)
If you live overseas you may need to apply for a
temporary visa to come to Australia, at your own Applicants assessed as eligible to sit the AVE will
expense, to take this examination. be sent an application form for the AVE Preliminary
Late applications to sit any of the (MCQ) Examination.
examinations described above will NOT be
accepted.
FEES
The current schedule of fees for the AVE Eligibility
Assessment and the AVE Preliminary and Final
Examinations can be obtained from the AVBC
website or by contacting the AVBC Office.
Each fee allows only one attempt at an
examination. Withdrawal from any examination
will result in a cancellation fee being charged.
For current fees for the OET, the IELTS academic,
the TOEFL-iBT® or the PTE Academic, please
contact the relevant English language test
provider.
Veterinary Science in Australia - Apr 2022 7NEW ZEALAND CITIZENS PROFESSIONAL
Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition ORGANISATIONS
Arrangements (TTMRA) The Australian Veterinary Association (AVA) and the
Australian and New Zealand College of Veterinary
The Trans-Tasman Travel Arrangement allows Scientists (ANZCVS) are professional organisations
Australian and New Zealand citizens to live and which provide information on a variety of professional
work in each other’s country without restrictions. matters for veterinarians in Australia.
Under the Trans-Tasman Mutual Recognition Membership of the Australian Veterinary Association is
Arrangement (TTMRA), individuals registered or voluntary and is open to the majority of veterinarians.
licensed to practice an occupation in New Zealand
are entitled, upon application, to practise the Admission to the Australian and New Zealand
equivalent occupation in any Australian State College of Veterinary Scientists is also voluntary, but
or Territory, and vice versa. For information on an entrance examination must be passed before
applying for registration under the provisions of the admission is granted. Fellowships are also available
TTMRA, you should contact the registration board for the College and are considered an important
in the Australian State or Territory in which you qualification for any veterinarian who wishes to
intend to practise. register as a specialist.
New Zealand citizens who wish to have their skills Contact details for these organisations and for the
and qualifications assessed for the purpose of New Zealand Veterinary Association follow.
working in Australia should approach the AVBC or
the registration boards directly. Australian Veterinary Association Ltd
National Office
Unit 40, 6 Herbert Street
ST LEONARDS NSW 2065
AUSTRALIA
Tel: 1300 137 309
email : members@ava.com.au
website : www.ava.com.au
Australian and New Zealand College of
Veterinary Scientists (ANZCVS)
Building 3, Garden City Office Park
2404 Logan Road
EIGHT MILE PLAINS QLD 4113
AUSTRALIA
Tel: +61 7 3423 2016
email : cm@anzcvs.org.au
website : www.anzcvs.org.au
New Zealand Veterinary Association
Level 2, 44 Victoria Street
WELLINGTON
NEW ZEALAND 6142
PO Box 11 212
WELLINGTON 6142
NEW ZEALAND
Tel: 0011 64 4 471 0484
email : nzva@vets.org.nz
website : www.nzva.org.nz
8AUSTRALASIAN VETERINARY New Zealand
Veterinary Council of New Zealand
REGISTRATION BOARDS Tel: +64 4 473 9600
email : vet@vetcouncil.org.nz
New South Wales website : www.vetcouncil.org.nz
Veterinary Practitioners Board of New South
Wales
Tel: +61 2 8338 1177
email : admin@vpb.nsw.gov.au ACCREDITED VETERINARY
website : www.vpb.nsw.gov.au
SCHOOLS IN AUSTRALASIAN
Victoria
Veterinary Practitioners Registration Board of UNIVERSITIES
Victoria
Accreditation of veterinary schools is an integral
Tel: +61 3 9620 7444
part of quality assurance procedures for veterinary
email : communications@vetboard.vic.gov.au
education. In Australia and New Zealand this
website : www.vetboard.vic.gov.au
system is managed by the Veterinary Schools
Queensland Accreditation Advisory Committee (VSAAC) which
Veterinary Surgeons Board of Queensland reports to the AVBC.
Tel: +61 7 3087 8777 Veterinary degrees which are currently accredited
email : vsbqld@daf.qld.gov.au as a result of the VSAAC process in Australia and
website : www.vsb.qld.gov.au New Zealand are listed below.
South Australia The University of Melbourne (Vic)
Veterinary Surgeons Board of South Australia
Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences
Tel: +61 8 8359 3334
website : www.fvas.unimelb.edu.au
email : admin@vsbsa.org.au
website : www.vsbsa.org.au
The University of Queensland (Qld)
Western Australia School of Veterinary Science
Veterinary Surgeons Board of Western Australia website : www.uq.edu.au/gatton
Tel: +61 8 9317 2353
email : admin@vsbwa.org.au The University of Sydney (NSW)
website : www.vsbwa.org.au School of Veterinary Science
website : www.usyd.edu.au
Tasmania
Veterinary Board of Tasmania Murdoch University (WA)
Tel: 0400 848 661 School of Veterinary and Life Sciences
email : vetboardtas@gmail.com website : www.murdoch.edu.au
website: https://dpipwe.tas.gov.au/biosecurity-
tasmania/animal-biosecurity/veterinary-board-
of-tasmania Charles Sturt University (NSW)
School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences
Australian Capital Territory website : www.csu.edu.au
ACT Veterinary Practitioners Board
Tel: +61 2 6207 0012 James Cook University (Qld)
email : tccs.vetboard@act.gov.au School of Veterinary and Animal Science
website : https://cityservices.act.gov.au/pets- website : www.jcu.edu.au
and-wildlife/veterinary-practitioners-board
Northern Territory The University of Adelaide (SA)
Veterinary Board of the Northern Territory School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences
Tel: +61 8 8999 2028 website : www.adelaide.edu.au
email : vetboard@nt.gov.au
website:https://dpir.nt.gov.au/boards-and- Massey University (NZ)
committees/veterinay-board-of-the-NT School of Veterinary Science
website : www.massey.ac.nz
Veterinary Science in Australia - Apr 2022 9Australasian Veterinary
Boards Council Inc.
Level 8, 470 Collins Street
Melbourne Vic 3000
Tel: +61 3 9620 7844
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