BVSC VETERINARY SCIENCE

Postgraduate programme

BVSC VETERINARY SCIENCE

Offered by UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL

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Programme overview

Why choose this programme?

Benefitting from a brand-new curriculum, this course provides students with cutting-edge, evidence-based teaching methods. You will be involved with case-based learning (addressing real-life clinical scenarios), signposting lectures, authentic coursework, a flipped classroom approach and built-in consolidation activities.

You will also benefit from:

- Opportunities to explore in-depth study and the Veterinary School's renowned research
- Getting hands-on with animals from the start of the curriculum, with a range of placements
- Working alongside experts.
Access to cutting-edge facilities

Bristol Veterinary School is home to a range of extensive facilities including:

- Langford Vets multidisciplinary small animal referral hospital, farm animal and small animal practices and an equine practice nearby
- Purpose-built anatomy and post-mortem facilities
- Diagnostic labs
- Award-winning clinical skills lab
- Dairy farm
- Abattoir.

You will benefit from an innovative curriculum and gain inspiration from world-leading researchers. Our celebrated team of clinical demonstrators will nurture you to develop essential practical skills.

Students can enjoy the onsite café, gym, student barn and abundant green spaces, alongside our welcoming and supportive community of staff and students.
Our partner organisations ensure students have ample experience across a wide range of species. You will have the opportunity to work in equine hospitals, the charity sector and with exotic species.

Modality

ON-CAMPUS: BRISTOL

UCAS entry grades

AAA

UCAS Tariff points

144 points

Tuition fee

£9,535

Entry requirements

AAA including Chemistry and one of Biology, Physics, Mathematics or Further Mathematics. Graduates are required to obtain a 2:1 in their degree and BBB at A-level, including Chemistry and one of Biology, Physics, Mathematics or Further Mathematics.

Dates and duration

5 Years / Full-Time

Career opportunities

Where this programme can take you


Our partner organisations ensure students have ample experience across a wide range of species. You will have the opportunity to work in equine hospitals, the charity sector and with exotic species.

SYLLABUS

Our revised curriculum is mapped to five vertical themes which will run throughout the whole curriculum:

- Scientific foundations of veterinary medicine
- Practical and clinical skills
- Clinical and professional reasoning
- Developing as a professional and lifelong learner
- Animals, people and planet.
- Students also spend time on farms and in veterinary practices during vacations (Extra-Mural Studies EMS), as required by the RCVS.

For the first three years, you will be primarily based at the main University campus in Clifton, with time spent at the clinical campus in Langford. Years four and five are taught mainly at the Langford campus.

Year 1
Covers the anatomy and physiology of a range of body systems and the husbandry and handling of common species.

Year 2
Covers the body's response to disease and how this is handled. Continuing with the anatomy and physiology of body systems whilst learning about the husbandry and handling of pigs, poultry and exotic pets.

Year 3
Learn how to diagnose and manage common conditions in a range of body systems. Practical learning will focus on clinical examination, surgical skills and communication skills.

Year 4
You will continue to build on knowledge of diagnosis and management of common conditions, working through increasingly complex cases and problems and learning more advanced practical skills.

Year 5
An extended final year with supervised core rotations in a range of workplace settings, including some shifts outside normal working hours. For more information on course requirements please see the admissions statement below.