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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.
RVC EQUINE RUNS BOTH AN EQUINE
The Hawkshead Campus has recently completed the largest and
most ambitious single capital development the RVC has ever PRACTICE AND REFERRAL HOSPITAL
undertaken. Opened in 2023, our new Student Learning Centre We combine a first-opinion ambulatory practice with 24-hour
provides new teaching laboratories, a library and a main lecture emergency and referral services, complemented by world-leading
theatre, alongside informal social learning spaces. The campus research with the largest number of RCVS Equine Specialists of
also houses other modern lecture theatres and laboratories. any UK veterinary teaching hospital. Veterinary Medicine students
undertake Equine rotations as part of their clinical training.
The redevelopment has significantly increased our research
facilities, including the launch of the RVC Centre for Vaccinology BOLTONS PARK FARM
and Regenerative Medicine. This is the latest specialist centre Our farm animal teaching facility is located approximately a mile
on campus, which already houses the Centre for Emerging and from the main campus. The farm has 200 hectares of mainly
Endemic Diseases, Structure and Motion Laboratories, Clinical grazing land, as well as 20 hectares of ancient mixed woodland.
Skills Centre, and Clinical Investigations Centre.

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