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PRACTICAL AND                                         INTRAMURAL CLINICAL ROTATIONS
        CLINICAL TEACHING                                     In the final two years of the course, your clinical experience
                                                              will focus on:
        ANIMAL HUSBANDRY EXTRA-MURAL STUDIES (AHEMS)*            • Observation, discussion and practical experience as a
        AHEMS is undertaken during the first two years (pre-clinical   member of the clinical team in the RVC hospitals, and in
        years) of the programme. AHEMS placements are designed   clinical enterprises in which the RVC is a collaborating partner
        to help you consolidate your learning about animal husbandry,     • Attendance at lectures, seminars and workshops
        develop animal handling skills, and learn about animal
        industries. Currently students complete 12 weeks of AHEMS     • Completion of a major research project
        before entry to Year 3 of the course, comprising:
                                                              CLINICAL EXTRA-MURAL STUDIES (ClinEMS)*
           • Two weeks on a lambing enterprise
                                                              ClinEMS occurs in veterinary practices and other veterinary
           • Two weeks on a dairy cattle farm                 industries. It will help you build on and enhance the clinical
           • Two weeks of equine experience                   training you will receive from on the RVC’s intramural clinical
           • One week at a commercial pig or poultry operation  rotations. You will consolidate your learning about diagnosis
                                                              and management of animal diseases, enhance your practical
           • One week at dog or cat establishment (cattery, kennel,
          veterinary practice)                                clinical skills, and acquire greater understanding of how
                                                              veterinary organisations operate.
           • Four weeks of your choice
                                                              You will undertake ClinEMS placements in your third, fourth
        *Requirements for the number of  weeks of  AHEMS and ClinicalEMS
        may be subject to change in the future.               and fifth years of the BVetMed programme, totalling 26 weeks
                                                              of placements (as currently required by the Royal College of
                                                              Veterinary Surgeons).



        STUDY

        Please note that these are indicative     YEARS    3 - 1                        YEARS     5 - 4
        modules and may be subject to change.
        Teaching is organised in ‘system strands’.
        These strands are visited on multiple   THE STRANDS MAKING UP THE BASIS    The majority of teaching during the final
        occasions, initially focusing on the normal   OF THE TEACHING ARE:      two-years of the programme is in the
        animal, and progressing through diseases  •  Locomotor                  form of clinical rotations, where you will
        of different systems, their investigation     • Neurology and special senses  work in small groups as part of a clinical
        and treatment. There are also non-system                                team. Activities during these two years
        strands that focus on the underpinning     • Cardiovascular and respiratory  will include:
        science, professionalism and diseases     • Urinary                       • Rotation preparation
        in groups of animals and their impact on     • Alimentary system          • Intramural clinical rotations
        public health.                         • Reproduction                     (in our hospital and with

                                               • Skin                             our collaborative partners)
                                               • Lymphoreticular and haematopoietic    • Principles of Veterinary Practice
                                               • Population Medicine and Veterinary      • Population Medicine and
                                              Public Health (PMVPH)               Veterinary Public Health
                                               • Principles of science            • Clinical extra-mural studies
                                               • Principles of Veterinary Practice    • Research project
                                               • Scholarship and evidence-based medicine
                                               • Animal husbandry extra mural studies


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