Aberystwyth Vet School

Teaching is organised in strands. These strands are visited on multiple occasions, initially focusing on the healthy animal, and progressing through diseases of different systems, their investigation and management. There are also non-system strands that focus on the underpinning science and the impact of animal disease on public health.

In the first two years you will be based in the heart of Wales at Aberystwyth University, studying the biology underpinning veterinary sciences, acquiring basic farm animal, horse and companion animal handling and examination skills, developing your communication, problem solving and team working skills. Aberystwyth University has a long history of animal health teaching and research and is committed to educational excellence.

In your third, fourth and fifth years you will be based at the RVC’s Hawkshead Campus in Potters Bar (Hertfordshire) where you will acquire the advanced knowledge and practical skills in the clinical sciences necessary for you to become a registerable veterinarian. During this period your clinical training will be undertaken in a range of the RVC’s clinical facilities and affiliated veterinary practices as well as a specific rotation at Aberystwyth university veterinary school focused on production animal issues relevant to Wales. This is a great university of veterinary medicine. 

The RVC has three outstanding academic and clinical departments. Lecturers at Aberystwyth University and the RVC in each department are not only world-class researchers and clinicians who are passionate about their field; they are highly qualified teaching professionals. At Aberystwyth University Veterinary School, students will benefit from the extensive university farms, Lluest Equine Centre and other teaching facilities.

From first to the third year:

• Principles of Science

• Locomotor

• Cardiovascular and respiratory

• Urogenital: renal

• Urogenital: reproduction

• Alimentary system

• Neurology and special senses

• Lymphoreticular and haematopoietic

• Skin

• Population medicine and veterinary public health (PMVPH)

• Scholarship evidence-based medicine.

During the fourth and fifth years: The majority of teaching during the fourth and fifth years of the programme is in the form of clinical rotations, where you will work in small groups in a variety of clinical environments. Students participate in both intramural rotations and ClinEMS placements across species and disciplines. They will also undertake a research project of their choice.