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RVET 4
R84 D102 YEARS

INSTITUTION UCAS CODE DURATION
Graduate Accelerated

Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine

D102

CAMPUS: Camden/Hawkshead f www.rvc.ac.uk/accelerated-bvetmed

The BVetMed programme is renowned throughout the world for its rigour and excellence, and if you
are already a graduate or in your final year of a biological sciences degree, you can apply for the
Graduate Accelerated course. The four-year programme enables you to supplement your existing
skills, adding to the preclinical science information covered by a previous biological science degree.

COURSE OVERVIEW
On this programme, you will complete an introductory graduate From the second year you will be based at our Hawkshead
transition year, where you will study the principles of animal form Campus where you will acquire knowledge and practical skills
and function, infections and responses, and animal husbandry. in clinical science necessary for you to participate fully in clinical
practice at the RVC, collaborative practices, and in private
veterinary practice in your third and fourth year.

PRACTICAL AND CLINICAL TEACHING
Animal Husbandry Extra-Mural Studies (AHEMS) • observation, discussion and practical experience as a member
AHEMS placements are designed to help you consolidate your of the clinical team in the College’s hospitals, and in clinical
learning about animal husbandry, develop animal handling skills enterprises in which the College is a collaborating partner
and learn about animal industries. You must complete 12 weeks • attendance at lectures, seminars and workshops
of AHEMS before entry to Year 3 of the course, comprising: • completion of a major research project
• Two weeks on a lambing enterprise
• Two weeks on a dairy cattle farm Clinical Extra-Mural Studies (ClinEMS)
• Two weeks at a commercial pig operation ClinEMS occurs in veterinary practices and other veterinary
• Two weeks of equine experience industries. It will help you build on and enhance the clinical training
• Four weeks of your choice you will receive from on the RVC’s intramural clinical rotations.

A maximum of six weeks of previous animal husbandry You will consolidate your learning about diagnosis and
experience towards the 12 week AHEMS requirement can be management of animal diseases, enhance your practical clinical
submitted for approval prior to entry on to the course. This skills, and acquire greater understanding of how veterinary
experience is limited to activities completed within the 24 organisations operate.
months leading up to the start of the course.
In the last three years of the BVetMed programme you will
Intramural clinical rotations undertake ClinEMS placements, totalling 26 weeks of placements.
In the final two years of the course, your clinical experience
will focus on:

You will have the option to take a placement year in a work place gaining work-place skills and experience relevant to your degree
whilst earning a Certificate in Work-based Learning and Research.
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