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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- member of the clinical team in the RVC hospitals, and in
clinical years) of the programme. AHEMS placements are clinical enterprises in which the RVC is a collaborating partner
designed to help you consolidate your learning about animal • Attendance at lectures, seminars and workshops
husbandry, develop animal handling skills, and learn about
animal industries. • Completion of a major research project
Students will need to complete 10 weeks of AHEMS before CLINICAL EXTRA-MURAL STUDIES (ClinEMS)*
entry to year 3 of the course. Students are strongly encouraged ClinEMS occurs in veterinary practices and other veterinary
to visit a range of different placements to gain experience of industries. It will help you build on and enhance the clinical
working with different species in a variety of settings.
training you will receive from on the RVC’s intramural clinical
*Requirements for the number of weeks of AHEMS and ClinicalEMS rotations. You will consolidate your learning about diagnosis
may be subject to change in the future. and management of animal diseases, enhance your practical
clinical skills, and acquire greater understanding of how
veterinary organisations operate.

You will undertake ClinEMS placements in your third, fourth
and fifth years of the BVetMed programme. The total number of
weeks required by the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons is
currently 20 weeks.

STUDY

Please note that these are indicative YEARS 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
3 - 1CHING ARE:
occasions, initially focusing on the normal OF THE TEA 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 • Cardiovascular and respiratory team. Activities during these two years
strands that focus on the underpinning • Urinary will include:
science, professionalism and diseases • Alimentary system • Rotation preparation
in groups of animals and their impact on • Reproduction • Intramural clinical rotations
public health. • Skin (in our hospital and with
• Lymphoreticular and haematopoietic our collaborative partners)
• Population Medicine and Veterinary
Public Health (PMVPH) • Principles of Veterinary Practice
• Principles of science • Population Medicine and
• Principles of Veterinary Practice Veterinary Public Health
• Scholarship and evidence-based medicine • Clinical extra-mural studies
• Animal husbandry extra-mural studies • Research project
• Endocrine
• Developmental Biology
• Integrated and Applied Anatomy
• Animal Husbandry
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