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PRACTICAL AND CLINICAL TEACHING
Animal Husbandry Extra-Mural Studies (AHEMS) Clinical Extra-Mural Studies (ClinEMS)
AHEMS is undertaken during the first two years of the You will undertake ClinEMS placements in your third, fourth
programme. AHEMS placements are designed to help you and fifth years of the BVSc programme, totalling 26 weeks of
consolidate your learning about animal husbandry, develop placements. To gain a stronger insight into Welsh veterinary
animal handling skills, and learn about animal industries. You practices, a minimum of 13 weeks of these ClinEMS will be
must complete 12 weeks of AHEMS before entry to Year 3 of performed in Wales. Please see page 67 for details.
the course. To gain a stronger insight into Welsh veterinary
needs, a minimum of 6 weeks of these AHEMS will be Intramural clinical rotations
performed in Wales. Please see page 67 for a full list of what Please visit page 67 for details.
the 12 weeks of AHEMS entails.

STUDY
Teaching is organised in ‘strands’. These strands are visited assessed on these strands in specific modules, while in year 3
on multiple occasions, initially focusing on the normal animal, at RVC all strands will be assessed together.
and progressing through diseases of different systems, their
investigation and treatment. There are also non-system strands Please see page 66 for a full list of strands and clinical rotations
that focus on the underpinning science, professionalism and making up the basis of the teaching for all years of study.
diseases in groups of animals and their impact on public health.
In the first two years at Aberystwyth you will be taught and

TEACHING AND LEARNING

The RVC has three outstanding academic and clinical Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS)
departments. Lecturers in each department are not only world- will teach students using the extensive university farms, Lluest
class researchers and clinicians who are passionate about Equine centre and other teaching facilities.
their field; they are highly qualified teaching professionals. At
Aberystwyth University, veterinary professionals and researchers Please see page 66 for full details.
from the Aberystwyth School of Veterinary Science and from the

YOUR CAREER
The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) quality throughout the degree, graduates will be extremely well-suited
assures UK veterinary degrees to ensure that new veterinary to continuing their career in Welsh practices and other veterinary
surgeons are fit to practise on graduation, and join the RCVS institutions and employers in Wales or rural practice.
Register. Only those individuals registered with the RCVS
can call themselves veterinary surgeons and, with a few
exceptions, practise veterinary surgery in the UK. The RVC,
Aberystwyth University and the RCVS are working closely
together to ensure that our BVSc course meets the standards
required for the RCVS to grant full accreditation in 2026 when
the first students graduate.
Graduates develop an in-depth scientific knowledge that may
be applied to a number of different career pathways including
mixed clinical practice, equine practices, farm/livestock
practices, veterinary research, veterinary public health and
policy, pharmaceutical industry, food security and conservation
medicine. Additionally, having trained partially in Wales

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