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CLINICAL EXTRA-MURAL STUDIES (CLINEMS)
You will undertake ClinEMS placements in your third, fourth
and fifth years of the BVSc programme, totalling 26 weeks of
placements. To gain a stronger insight into Welsh veterinary
practices, a minimum of 13 weeks of these ClinEMS will be
performed in Wales. Please see page 61 for details.

INTRAMURAL CLINICAL ROTATIONS
Please visit page 61 for details.

STUDY

Please note that these are indicative modules and may be subject
to change.
Teaching is organised in ‘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. In the first two years at Aberystwyth you will be taught
and assessed on these strands in specific modules, while in
year 3 at RVC all strands will be assessed together.

Please see page 61 for a full list of strands and clinical rotations
making up the basis of the teaching for all years of study.
YOUR CAREER
TEACHING AND LEARNING The Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) quality assures

The RVC has three outstanding academic and clinical UK veterinary degrees to ensure that new veterinary surgeons
departments. Lecturers in each department are not are fit to practise on graduation, and join the RCVS Register. Only
only world-class researchers and clinicians who are those individuals registered with the RCVS can call themselves
highly qualified teaching professionals and passionate veterinary surgeons and, with a few exceptions, practise
about their field. At Aberystwyth University, veterinary veterinary surgery in the UK. The RVC, Aberystwyth University and
professionals and researchers from the Aberystwyth the RCVS are working closely together to ensure that our BVSc
School of Veterinary Science and from the Institute of course meets the standards required for the RCVS to grant full
Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) accreditation in 2026 when the first students graduate.
will teach students using the extensive university farms,
Lluest Equine centre and other teaching facilities. Graduates develop an in-depth scientific knowledge that may
be applied to a number of different career pathways including
Please see page 62 for full details. mixed clinical practice, equine practices, farm/livestock
practices, veterinary research, veterinary public health and
ENTRY REQUIREMENTS policy, pharmaceutical industry, food security and conservation
medicine. Additionally, having trained partially in Wales
For a complete list of academic, English language and throughout the degree, graduates will be extremely well-suited
work experience requirements for this course, please see to continuing their career in Welsh practices and other veterinary
pages 64-65. institutions and employers in Wales or rural practice.

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