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TEACHING

AND LEARNING . . .

PRACTICAL AND If you are studying the Graduate
CLINICAL TEACHING Accelerated BVetMed, you can do
six weeks of AHEMS prior to starting
A fundamental part of our veterinary
medicine courses is the practical your course.
experience you gain that will prepare you CLINICAL EXTRAMURAL
for your future career. This is achieved STUDIES (ClinEMS)
through practical classes, intramural
clinical rotations and extramural studies. ClinEMS occurs in veterinary practices
We believe that this is critical to your and other veterinary industries. It will
development so that you are able to apply help you build on and enhance the
your theoretical learning in a practical clinical training you will receive from on
environment to clinical cases. There are the RVC’s intramural clinical rotations.
two categories of extramural studies. You will consolidate your learning about
diagnosis and management of animal
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY diseases, enhance your practical clinical
EXTRAMURAL STUDIES skills, and acquire greater understanding
(AHEMS) of how veterinary practices and
organisations operate.
AHEMS is undertaken during the first
two years of the five veterinary medicine INTRAMURAL CLINICAL
course, or your first year if studying the ROTATIONS
Graduate Accelerated BVetMed. AHEMS
placements are designed to help you Intramural clinical rotations take place in
consolidate your learning about animal our own hospitals and clinics and those
husbandry, develop animal handling of our partner organisations in the final
skills, and learn about the management one-and-a-half years of the course.
of normal animals and their related The focus of this is on:
industries. This would include time spent • observation, discussion and
with lambing enterprises, a dairy cattle practical experience as a member
farm, a commercial pig operation, and of the clinical team in the College’s
equine experience. You must complete hospitals, and in clinical enterprises in
12 weeks of AHEMS before entry to year which the College
3 (or year 2 if studying the Graduate is a collaborating partner
Accelerated BVetMed) of the course. • attendance at lectures, seminars
and workshops
• completion of a major research project
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