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TEACHING



                                            AND LEARNING . . .





                                            PRACTICAL AND                       CLINICAL EXTRAMURAL
                                            CLINICAL TEACHING                   STUDIES (ClinEMS)*
                                            A fundamental part of our veterinary   ClinEMS occurs in veterinary practices
                                            medicine courses is the practical   and other veterinary industries. It will
                                            experience you gain that will prepare you   help you build on and enhance the
                                            for your future career. This is achieved   clinical training you will receive from on
                                            through practical classes, intramural   the RVC’s intramural clinical rotations.
                                            clinical rotations and extramural studies.   You will consolidate your learning
                                            We believe that this is critical to your   about diagnosis and management of
                                            development so that you are able to apply   animal diseases, enhance your practical
                                            your theoretical learning in a practical   clinical skills, and acquire greater
                                            environment to clinical cases. There are   understanding of how veterinary practices
                                            two categories of extramural studies.  and organisations operate. You must
                                                                                complete 26 weeks of ClinEMS.
                                            ANIMAL HUSBANDRY
                                            EXTRAMURAL STUDIES                  INTRAMURAL CLINICAL
                                            (AHEMS)*                            ROTATIONS

                                            AHEMS is undertaken during the first two   Intramural clinical rotations take place in
                                            years of the five veterinary medicine course,   our own hospitals and clinics and those
                                            or your first year if studying the Graduate   of our partner organisations in the final
                                            Accelerated BVetMed. AHEMS placements   one-and-a-half years of the course.
                                            are designed to help you consolidate your   The focus of this is on:
                                            learning about animal husbandry, develop   •  observation, discussion and practical
                                            animal handling skills, and learn about the   experience as a member of the
                                            management of normal animals and their   clinical team in the RVC’s hospitals,
                                            related industries. This would include time   and in clinical enterprises in which the
                                            spent with lambing enterprises, a dairy   RVC is a collaborating partner
                                            cattle farm, a commercial pig operation, and   •  attendance at lectures, seminars
                                            equine experience. You must complete 12   and workshops
                                            weeks of AHEMS before entry to year 3 (or
                                            year 2 if studying the Graduate Accelerated   •  completion of a major research project
                                            BVetMed) of the course.

                                            If you are studying the Graduate Accelerated
                                            BVetMed, you can do six weeks of AHEMS   *Requirements for the number of  weeks of
                                                                                AHEMS and ClinicalEMS may be subject to
                                            prior to starting your course.      change in the future.
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