Page 41 - RVC Undergraduate Prospectus 25-26

RVET 4 D302
R84 YEARS (D304) CAMDEN f www.rvc.ac.uk/mscibioveterinary

INSTITUTION DURATION UCAS CODE CAMPUS
(WITH PLACEMENT
YEAR)
MSci BIOVETERINARY SCIENCES

The MSci in Bioveterinary Sciences is an The fourth year comprises an extensive, in-depth research
undergraduate integrated master’s degree, the aim project, together with training in advanced research methods.
of which is to prepare you for a PhD or a career in This will build on your knowledge gained from your first three
years and develop your scientific and transferable skills further,
an academic or industrial research environment, making you ‘work ready’ and able to realise your full potential
for example within the biotechnology or as soon as you embark on your chosen career path after
pharmaceutical industries, and for other biological, graduating from the course.
biomedicine and veterinary-related careers.
The course will deliver the underpinning knowledge of animal
health and disease, where you will gain a better understanding
COURSE OVERVIEW of current fundamental research and related questions in
This programme focuses on developing your knowledge, bioveterinary sciences. You will be exposed to cutting-edge
analytical skills and practical skills. Modules are structured fields of research in comparative physiology and medicine,
across the first three years of the course to build a broad base livestock production and health, and animal welfare science
of knowledge, whilst also allowing the opportunity to specialise and ethics. The course is particularly suitable for those
through optional module selections and research projects in considering a career in research.
your second and third year.

YEAR COMPULSORY MODULES YEAR • Research skills
• Research project (30 credits) • Extended

OPTIONAL MODULES 4 Research Project
(105 credits)
• Advanced concepts • Critical Review (30 credits)
in bio-business • Development and disease
3 • Advanced concepts • Endocrine and metabolic
in reproduction syndromes
• Applied molecular microbiology • Epidemiology: the bigger picture
• Advanced skeletal pathobiology • Infection and immunity (30 credits)
• Animal behaviour and cognition • Parasitology of human and
• Applied animal welfare veterinary tropical diseases
• Comparative animal • Practical investigative biology
locomotion (30 credits) • Science of animal welfare
• Comparative models of disease
• Comparative anatomy

RVC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES 41