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HAWKSHEAD FACILITIES . . .

HANDS-ON CLINICAL EXPERIENCE RVC SMALL ANIMAL REFERRALS
AND SCIENTIFIC STUDY AND EMERGENCY SERVICES operates from the
The Hawkshead Campus in Hertfordshire houses facilities Queen Mother Hospital for Animals, which is one of the largest
to deliver both the theoretical and practical elements of our and most advanced veterinary hospitals in the world, treating
courses. It is where our veterinary medicine students are over 19,000 cases each year. Veterinary medicine and nursing
based for their final three years, alongside student veterinary students spend much of their clinical experience working
nurses, final year Animal Biology, Behaviour, Welfare and Ethics here – meeting and treating patients and learning to carry out
students and specialists-in-training. procedures – all supervised by expert senior vets and vet nurses.
– see page 21
The Hawkshead Campus has recently completed the largest and
most ambitious single capital development the RVC has ever
undertaken. Opened in 2023, our new Student Learning Centre RVC EQUINE RUNS BOTH AN EQUINE
provides new teaching laboratories, a library and a main lecture PRACTICE AND REFERRAL HOSPITAL
theatre, alongside informal social learning spaces. The campus We combine a first-opinion ambulatory practice with 24-hour
also houses other modern lecture theatres and laboratories. emergency and referral services, complemented by world-leading
research with the largest number of RCVS Equine Specialists of
The redevelopment has significantly increased our research any UK veterinary teaching hospital. Veterinary Medicine students
facilities, including the launch of the RVC Centre for Vaccinology undertake equine rotations as part of their clinical training.
and Regenerative Medicine. This is the latest specialist centre – see page 22
on campus, which already houses the Centre for Emerging and
Endemic Diseases, Structure and Motion Laboratories, Clinical BOLTONS PARK FARM
Skills Centre, and Clinical Investigations Centre. Our farm animal teaching facility is located approximately a

mile from the main campus. The farm has 495 acres of mainly
grazing land, as well as 50 acres of ancient mixed woodland.
– see page 23
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