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PRACTICAL AND INTRAMURAL CLINICAL ROTATIONS
CLINICAL TEACHING In the final two years of the course, your clinical experience
will focus on:
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY EXTRA-MURAL STUDIES (AHEMS)* • Observation, discussion and practical experience as a
AHEMS is undertaken during the first two years (pre-clinical member of the clinical team in the RVC hospitals, and in
years) of the programme. AHEMS placements are designed clinical enterprises in which the RVC is a collaborating partner
to help you consolidate your learning about animal husbandry, • Attendance at lectures, seminars and workshops
develop animal handling skills, and learn about animal
industries. Currently students complete 12 weeks of AHEMS • Completion of a major research project
before entry to Year 3 of the course, comprising:
CLINICAL EXTRA-MURAL STUDIES (ClinEMS)*
• Two weeks on a lambing enterprise
ClinEMS occurs in veterinary practices and other veterinary
• Two weeks on a dairy cattle farm industries. It will help you build on and enhance the clinical
• Two weeks of equine experience training you will receive from on the RVC’s intramural clinical
• One week at a commercial pig or poultry operation rotations. You will consolidate your learning about diagnosis
and management of animal diseases, enhance your practical
• One week at dog or cat establishment (cattery, kennel,
veterinary practice) clinical skills, and acquire greater understanding of how
veterinary organisations operate.
• Four weeks of your choice
You will undertake ClinEMS placements in your third, fourth
*Requirements for the number of weeks of AHEMS and ClinicalEMS
may be subject to change in the future. and fifth years of the BVetMed programme, totalling 26 weeks
of placements (as currently required by the Royal College of
Veterinary Surgeons).

STUDY

Please note that these are indicative YEARS 3 - 1 YEARS 5 - 4
modules and may be subject to change.
Teaching is organised in ‘system strands’.
These strands are visited on multiple THE STRANDS MAKING UP THE BASIS The majority of teaching during the final
occasions, initially focusing on the normal OF THE TEACHING ARE: two-years of the programme is in the
animal, and progressing through diseases • Locomotor form of clinical rotations, where you will
of different systems, their investigation • Neurology and special senses work in small groups as part of a clinical
and treatment. There are also non-system team. Activities during these two years
strands that focus on the underpinning • Cardiovascular and respiratory will include:
science, professionalism and diseases • Urinary • Rotation preparation
in groups of animals and their impact on • Alimentary system • Intramural clinical rotations
public health. • Reproduction (in our hospital and with

• Skin our collaborative partners)
• Lymphoreticular and haematopoietic • Principles of Veterinary Practice
• Population Medicine and Veterinary • Population Medicine and
Public Health (PMVPH) Veterinary Public Health
• Principles of science • Clinical extra-mural studies
• Principles of Veterinary Practice • Research project
• Scholarship and evidence-based medicine
• Animal husbandry extra mural studies

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