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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 placements are designed to help you consolidate     member of the clinical team in the RVC’s hospitals,
        your learning about animal husbandry, develop animal     and in clinical enterprises in which the RVC is a
        handling skills and learn about animal industries. Currently,     collaborating partner
        students must complete 12 weeks of AHEMS before entry to     • Attendance at lectures, seminars and workshops
        Year 2 of the course, comprising:
                                                                • Completion of a major research project
           • Two weeks on a lambing enterprise
           • Two weeks on a dairy cattle farm                 CLINICAL EXTRA-MURAL STUDIES (ClinEMS)*
           • Two weeks of equine experience                   ClinEMS occurs in veterinary practices and other veterinary
           • One week at a commercial pig or poultry operation  industries. It will help you build on and enhance the clinical
                                                              training you will receive from on the RVC’s intramural
           • One week at dog or cat establishment
          (cattery, kennel, veterinary practice)              clinical rotations.
           • Four weeks of your choice                        You will consolidate your learning about diagnosis and
                                                              management of animal diseases, enhance your practical
        A maximum of six weeks of previous animal husbandry   clinical skills, and acquire greater understanding of how
        experience towards the 12-week AHEMS requirement can   veterinary organisations operate.
        be submitted for approval prior to entry on to the course.
        This experience is limited to activities completed within the   In the last three years of the BVetMed programme you
        24 months leading up to the start of the course.      will undertake ClinEMS placements, totalling 26 weeks of
                                                              placements (as currently required by the Royal College of
        *Requirements for the number of  weeks of  AHEMS and ClinicalEMS
        may be subject to change in the future.               Veterinary Surgeons).




































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