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STUDY
Please note that these are indicative modules and may be subject to change.

Graduate transition year
YEAR
1 • Animal Husbandry • Animal husbandry
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Infections and responses
Principles of animal form and function
• Professional studies
Teaching is organised in ‘strands’. These strands are visited on multiple occasions,
YEAR initially focusing on the normal animal, and progressing through diseases of different
2 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.
The strands making up the basis of the teaching are:
• Alimentary • Neurology and special senses
• Population medicine and veterinary • Lymphoreticular and haemopoietic
public health (PMVPH) • Urinary
• Reproduction • Reproduction
• Cardiovascular and respiratory • Endocrine
• Skin • Principles of science
• Locomotor • Professional studies
• Scholarship and Evidence Based Medicine

YEARS The majority of teaching during the final two years of the programme is in the form of
3 clinical rotations where students will work in small groups as part of a clinical team.
Activities during these two years will include:
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4 • Rotation preparation • Professional studies
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Clinical extra-mural studies
Intramural clinical rotations (in our hospital
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and with our collaborative partners)
Research project
• PMVPH
TEACHING AND LEARNING
Learning Self-directed learning
This course is delivered through whole-class lectures, small Outside of your timetabled lectures and practical sessions,
group tutorials, group work in directed learning classes, you are expected to undertake self-directed learning. Typically,
computer-assisted learning, demonstrations, practical work in this involves reading journal articles and books, working on
laboratory and dissection classes, practical classes utilising live individual and group projects, undertaking research in the
animals, directed and self-directed reading, directed and self- library, preparing coursework assignments and presentations,
directed practice in the Clinical Skills Centre, self-evaluation, and preparing for examinations.
animal husbandry placements, placements in veterinary
practices, and production of project reports. Teaching staff
The RVC has three outstanding academic and clinical
departments. Lecturers in each department are not only world-
class researchers and clinicians who are passionate about their
field; they are highly qualified teaching professionals. All RVC
students are assured teaching of the highest standard.

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