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STUDY RESEARCH PROJECT
Throughout your intercalated year, emphasis is placed on a
You will have the option to take a placement year in a work research project, which accounts for half of the intercalated
place gaining work place skills and experience relevant to your degree programme. You will have a choice of different projects,
degree whilst earning a Certificate in Work-based Learning from a broad range of specialisation including locomotion,
and Research.
reproduction, cell and molecular biology, physiology,
Please see page 60 for an outline of what is studied during epidemiology, infection and immunity. For this part of the
the five-year programme, along with the practical and clinical course you will work with an established academic team who
teaching delivered. You will typically study your intercalated year will help to guide your research and ensure you develop any
between the second and third year of the Bachelor of Veterinary skills you need to complete the study. For the BSc Bioveterinary
Medicine course. During the year you will take modules that Sciences your project will count either 30 or 60 credits towards
are credit rated. One credit is equivalent to 10 hours study your intercalated degree, for BSc Comparative Pathology all
time (including home study and exam revision). To pass the projects will contribute 60 credits to your intercalated degree.
intercalated year you will need to complete 120 credits of study.

MODULES INTERCALATED INTERCALATED

Please note that these are indicative BSC BIOVETERINARY COMPARATIVE
modules and may be subject to change. SCIENCES PATHOLOGY

In addition to the research project, • Advanced concepts in bio-business • Principles of pathology
all courses have some element of • Applications of pathology
coursework. Both courses are modular, • Advanced concepts in reproduction
for the BSc Bioveterinary Sciences you • Applied molecular microbiology
will have a choice of modules (examples • Advanced skeletal pathobiology “My BSc Comparative
are given below) and you will be able • Animal behaviour Pathology intercalated year
to select modules based on your own and cognition was a huge milestone
interest. For BSc Comparative Pathology, • Applied animal welfare in my professional
there are two compulsory modules which development. Personally,
contribute the 60 credits that together • Comparative animal the greatest benefit of
with the research project allow you to locomotion my intercalated degree
complete the degree. • Comparative models is the advantage it will
of disease give me when applying for
Examples of Optional modules (credit • Development and disease residency training in the future.
ratings are shown after the name of the Intercalation gave me the time to
module. Students would need to select • Endocrine and metabolic syndromes
modules that together with the 30 or 60 • Epidemiology: the bigger picture really think about which aspect of
credit research projects add to a total of the veterinary field I would like to
120 credits). All modules are 15 credits • Infection and immunity pursue. My intercalated year was the
unless noted otherwise. • Parasitology of human and veterinary best I have experienced at the RVC
tropical diseases so far with lecturers being brought in
• Practical investigative biology from around the world and I am so
• Science of animal welfare grateful to the professors and staff
that made it possible.”

RACHEL GARTY
BSc Comparative Pathology
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