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HAWKSHEAD FACILITIES . . .







        HANDS-ON CLINICAL EXPERIENCE                          RVC SMALL ANIMAL REFERRALS operates from
        AND SCIENTIFIC STUDY                                  the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals which is one of the
        The Hawkshead Campus in Hertfordshire houses facilities   largest and most advanced veterinary hospitals in the world,
        to deliver both the theoretical and practical elements of our   treating over 19,000 cases each year. Veterinary medicine and
        courses. It is where our veterinary medicine students are   nursing students spend much of their clinical experience working
        based for their final three years, alongside student veterinary   here – meeting and treating patients and learning to carry out
        nurses, final year Animal Biology, Behaviour, Welfare and Ethics   procedures – all supervised by expert senior vets and vet nurses.
        students and specialists-in-training.                 – see page 21
        The Hawkshead Campus has recently completed the largest and
        most ambitious single capital development the RVC has ever   RVC EQUINE RUNS BOTH AN EQUINE
        undertaken. Opened in 2023, our new Student Learning Centre   PRACTICE AND REFERRAL HOSPITAL
        provides new teaching laboratories, a library and a main lecture   We combine a first-opinion ambulatory practice with 24-hour
        theatre, alongside informal social learning spaces. The campus   emergency and referral services, complemented by world-leading
        also houses other modern lecture theatres and laboratories.    research with the largest number of RCVS Equine Specialists of
                                                              any UK veterinary teaching hospital. Veterinary Medicine students
        The redevelopment has significantly increased our research   undertake Equine rotations as part of their clinical training.
        facilities, including the launch of the RVC Centre for Vaccinology   – see page 22
        and Regenerative Medicine. This is the latest specialist centre
        on campus, which already houses the Centre for Emerging and   BOLTONS PARK FARM
        Endemic Diseases, Structure and Motion Laboratories, Clinical   Our farm animal teaching facility is located approximately a mile
        Skills Centre, and Clinical Investigations Centre.    from the main campus. The farm has 200 hectares of mainly
                                                              grazing land, as well as 20 hectares of ancient mixed woodland.
                                                              – see page 23

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