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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 placements are designed to help you consolidate member of the clinical team in the RVC’s hospitals,
your learning about animal husbandry, develop animal and in clinical enterprises in which the RVC is a
handling skills and learn about animal industries. Currently, collaborating partner
students must complete 12 weeks of AHEMS before entry to • Attendance at lectures, seminars and workshops
Year 2 of the course, comprising:
• Completion of a major research project
• Two weeks on a lambing enterprise
• Two weeks on a dairy cattle farm CLINICAL EXTRA-MURAL STUDIES (ClinEMS)*
• Two weeks of equine experience ClinEMS occurs in veterinary practices and other veterinary
• One week at a commercial pig or poultry operation industries. It will help you build on and enhance the clinical
training you will receive from on the RVC’s intramural
• One week at dog or cat establishment
(cattery, kennel, veterinary practice) clinical rotations.
• Four weeks of your choice You will consolidate your learning about diagnosis and
management of animal diseases, enhance your practical
A maximum of six weeks of previous animal husbandry clinical skills, and acquire greater understanding of how
experience towards the 12-week AHEMS requirement can veterinary organisations operate.
be submitted for approval prior to entry on to the course.
This experience is limited to activities completed within the In the last three years of the BVetMed programme you
24 months leading up to the start of the course. will undertake ClinEMS placements, totalling 26 weeks of
placements (as currently required by the Royal College of
*Requirements for the number of weeks of AHEMS and ClinicalEMS
may be subject to change in the future. Veterinary Surgeons).

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