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VETERINARY MEDICINE
We have been delivering Veterinary medicine is a strand-based course that
exceptional training in follows a ‘spiral’ curriculum. This means that key
concepts are presented repeatedly to you as you
veterinary medicine for progress through the course, at deepening levels of
complexity and in different contexts.
over 234 years, and The progression of knowledge and understanding
our clinical facilities from pre-clinical basic concepts to clinical and
professional knowledge and reasoning skills is
are second-to-none. achieved by revisits to each strand at different stages
of the course. For example, when learning about the
You will benefit from an kidney, you will learn basic anatomy and physiology
during the preclinical phase of the course and learn
outstanding learning about the common diseases of the kidney and how
they are diagnosed and treated during the clinical
environment and graduate phase. This is then enriched by working with animal
patients presented with kidney disease in our first-
ready to make a real opinion and referral hospitals, or other practices,
during clinical rotations and extra-mural placements.
difference in the veterinary
profession and beyond.
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