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HAWKSHEAD FACILITIES . . .

HANDS-ON CLINICAL EXPERIENCE RVC SMALL ANIMAL REFERRALS
AND SCIENTIFIC STUDY AND EMERGENCY SERVICES operates from the
The Hawkshead Campus in Hertfordshire houses facilities Queen Mother Hospital for Animals, which is one of the largest
to deliver both the theoretical and practical elements of our and most advanced veterinary hospitals in the world, treating
courses. It is where our veterinary medicine students are over 19,000 cases each year. Veterinary medicine and nursing
based for their final three years, alongside student veterinary students spend much of their clinical experience working here –
nurses, final year Animal Biology, Behaviour, Welfare and meeting and treating patients and learning to carry out procedures
Ethics students and specialists-in-training. – all supervised by expert senior vets and vet nurses.
The Hawkshead Campus has recently completed the largest and
most ambitious single capital development the RVC has ever RVC EQUINE RUNS BOTH AN EQUINE
undertaken. Opened in 2023, our new Student Learning Centre PRACTICE AND REFERRAL HOSPITAL
provides new teaching laboratories, a library and a main lecture We combine a first-opinion ambulatory practice with 24-hour
theatre, alongside informal social learning spaces. The campus emergency and referral services, complemented by world-leading
also houses other modern lecture theatres and laboratories. research with the largest number of RCVS Equine Specialists of
any UK veterinary teaching hospital. Veterinary Medicine students
The redevelopment has significantly increased our research undertake equine rotations as part of their clinical training.
facilities, including the launch of the RVC Centre for Vaccinology
and Regenerative Medicine. This is the latest specialist centre BOLTONS PARK FARM
on campus, which already houses the Centre for Emerging and Our farm animal teaching facility is located approximately a
Endemic Diseases, Structure and Motion Laboratories, Clinical mile from the main campus. The farm has 495 acres of mainly
Skills Centre, and Clinical Investigations Centre. grazing land, as well as 50 acres of ancient mixed woodland.

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