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CAMDEN FACILITIES . . .






        HANDS-ON CLINICAL EXPERIENCE                          THE RVC BEAUMONT SAINSBURY
        AND SCIENTIFIC STUDY                                  ANIMAL HOSPITAL
        Our historic Camden Campus is where Veterinary Medicine   The RVC’s own first-opinion practice and animal hospital is right
        (BVetMed) students spend their first two years, or the first year   next door to Hobday and is the starting point for hands-on clinical
        of the Accelerated BVetMed and Veterinary Gateway, before   experience for veterinary medicine and nursing students.
        Gateway students join the BVetMed students for another two
        years at the Camden Campus.                           Veterinary medicine students participate in all aspects of client
                                                              and patient care, under the supervision of experienced veterinary
        Biological Sciences pathway students study at Camden throughout   surgeons and Registered Veterinary Nurses. The practice is
        their courses, except Animal Biology, Behaviour, Welfare and   a leading centre for veterinary nurse training, with students
        Ethics students who spend their final year at Hawkshead.  supporting the nursing team in the care of animals and client
                                                              services under the supervision of veterinary surgeons and
        THE HOBDAY BUILDING is the centre of the              experienced registered nurses.
        Camden Campus. In 2021 it benefitted from its most    – see page 20
        extensive redevelopment in over 80 years. Approximately
        £14 million was invested to provide students with new   LONDON BIOSCIENCE
        classrooms, extra social learning spaces, an extended   INNOVATION CENTRE (LBIC)
        dining facility, larger common rooms, and much-improved   This is wholly owned by the RVC and is home to over
        social areas. It also holds lecture theatres, a learning   40 biotechnology and life sciences companies, from
        resource centre, a teaching lab and dissection room.   small start-ups to established global organisations,
                                                              who regularly provide placements for our Biological
        MODERN WORLD-CLASS LABORATORIES                       Sciences pathway students.
        including molecular biology labs with cell culture, as well as
        state-of-the-art cell and tissue imaging facilities.
       10         HISTORY-MAKING • WORLD-LEADING • LIFE-CHANGING
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