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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 233 years, and
The progression of knowledge and understanding from
our clinical facilities pre-clinical basic concepts to clinical and professional
knowledge and reasoning skills is achieved by revisits
are second-to-none. to each strand at different stages of the course. For
example, when learning about the kidney, you will learn
You will benefit from an basic anatomy and physiology during the preclinical
outstanding learning phase of the course and learn about the common
diseases of the kidney and how they are diagnosed
environment and graduate and treated during the clinical phase. This is then
enriched by working with animal patients presented
ready to make a real with kidney disease in our first-opinion and referral
hospitals, or other practices, during clinical rotations
difference in the and extra-mural placements.
veterinary profession.
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