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PRACTICAL AND CLINICAL TEACHING
Animal Husbandry Extra-Mural Studies (AHEMS) AHEMS Clinical Extra-Mural Studies (ClinEMS)
is undertaken during the first two years (pre-clinical years) of ClinEMS occurs in veterinary practices and other veterinary
the programme. AHEMS placements are designed to help you industries. It will help you build on and enhance the clinical
consolidate your learning about animal husbandry, develop training you will receive from on the RVC’s intramural clinical
animal handling skills, and learn about animal industries. rotations. You will consolidate your learning about diagnosis and
You must complete 12 weeks of AHEMS before entry to management of animal diseases, enhance your practical clinical
Year 3 of the course, comprising: skills, and acquire greater understanding of how veterinary
• Two weeks on a lambing enterprise organisations operate.
• Two weeks on a dairy cattle farm
• Two weeks at a commercial pig operation You will undertake ClinEMS placements in your third, fourth
• Two weeks of equine experience and fifth years of the BVetMed programme, totalling 26 weeks
• Four weeks of your choice of placements (as currently required by the Royal College of
Veterinary Surgeons).
Intramural clinical rotations
In the final two years of the course, your clinical experience will
focus on:
• observation, discussion and practical experience as a member
of the clinical team in the College’s hospitals, and in clinical
enterprises in which the College is a collaborating partner
• attendance at lectures, seminars and workshops
• completion of a major research project

STUDY

Please note that these are indicative modules and may be subject to change.
Teaching is organised in ‘system strands’. These strands are visited on multiple occasions, initially focusing on the normal animal,
and progressing through diseases of different systems, their investigation and treatment. There are also non-system strands that
focus on the underpinning science, professionalism and diseases in groups of animals and their impact on public health.

YEARS The strands making up the basis of the teaching are:
1 • Locomotor • Lymphoreticular and haematopoietic
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Population medicine and veterinary
Neurology and special senses
public health (PMVPH)
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3 • Cardiovascular and respiratory • Principles of science
Urinary
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Professional studies
Alimentary system
• Reproduction • Scholarship and Evidence Based Medicine
• Skin
YEARS
4 The majority of teaching during the final two-years of the programme is in the form of clinical rotations, where
you will work in small groups as part of a clinical team.
Activities during these two years will include:
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5 • Rotation preparation • Population Medicine and Veterinary Public Health
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Clinical extra-mural studies
Intramural clinical rotations
(in our hospital and with our • Research project
collaborative partners)
• Professional studies
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