The world of veterinary medicine has always attracted some of the brightest and most able students - brought together by a desire to work with animals and a concern for animal welfare.The careers are varied across the clinical and non-clinical sector. Practising vets can focus on the small animal, equine or farm sectors where advances in animal science and technology are transforming both disease prevention and treatment. But career options in the non-clinical veterinary sector are also growing – with exciting avenues opening up in education, innovation and working collaboratively across animal and human health. A changing industry demands that the vets of tomorrow graduate with not only first rate clinical skills, but a broader set of capabilities. They need to be good communicators with a sound understanding of business. They also need to be confident and resilient first opinion practitioners – who have benefited during their training from access to a wide variety of extramural study placements in industry.These factors have combined to convince Harper Adams University and Keele University that the time is right to create a vet school that meets the challenges of today’s veterinary industry. Harper Adams has a strong pedigree in animal sciences, veterinary nursing and veterinary physiotherapy, whilst Keele has a long history in the life sciences and human medicine. Both institutions are well recognised for their strength in employability, student satisfaction and first class teaching. The unique two-centre School will provide students with the opportunity to take advantage of two institutions with a common commitment to excellence but complementary skill sets and resources. The clinical training will follow a distributed model of delivery and a range of approved third party veterinary practices have agreed to provide clinical placements. As is the norm with Veterinary Schools, the teaching week is intensive for the students, who can expect around 28 hours per week of contact time. Students also need to complete extra mural studies gaining hands on practical experience, and so the total study year ranges from 35-45 weeks a year across the five year programme. Due to the vocational nature and focus of the students, all modules have been created for the programme and are exclusive to it: •Extensive use is made of the farm and companion animals on site at Harper Adams as well as state-of-the-art laboratory facilities and clinical skills rooms at both Harper and Keele •Small group teaching facilitates the development of confidence in practical skills •The curriculum will incorporate case studies from early in the first year •In the final 2 clinical years of the programme, vets from referral centres provide keynote lectures, tutorials and practical classes, based on their current and ongoing experience in practice providing our students with real world experience and knowledge for their future careers •Clinical teaching takes place not only in a hospital setting with the unusual or difficult cases, but also in practices where management of the everyday case is the primary focus Students will be equally split between home sites, with lectures simultaneously live-streamed to the other site. Students spend full days on either campus, mostly at their 'home' site, with travel days to the other site limited to the need to access specialist facilities, typically in the region of four days a month. The final year will be mostly spent on clinical rotations, with individual days or weeks back at the home site for tutorials. EMS can take place anywhere in the country, whereas final year university controlled clinical rotations will predominantly take place within easy travelling distance from either home site. A shuttle bus service is provided for Vet School students allowing them to travel free of charge and safely between the two institutions in order to access timetabled classes.

Information on the course modules can be found at https://www.harperkeelevetschool.ac.uk/study/432/veterinary-medicine-and-surgery/

Information on assessment methods will be available at https://www.harperkeelevetschool.ac.uk/ in due course

Professional Bodies are not listed for this Course.

15 October This is the deadline for applications to be completed and sent for this course. If the university or college still has places available you can apply after this date, but your application is not guaranteed to be considered.

Course code: D100

Institution code: H25

Campus Name: Harper and Keele Veterinary School

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The following entry points are available for this course:

Year 1

Entry Requirements for Advanced Entry are not listed for this Course.

Graduates: Those who already hold a degree will normally be required to have a minimum 2i in any honours degree plus minimum of BBB at A-level, including biology or chemistry; students with good degrees (1st or 2i) in an animal-related or bioscience discipline who do not meet the A-level requirements are welcome to apply and will be considered on a case-by-case basis alongside all other applicants. Covid-19 Update We understand that the coronavirus outbreak has caused major disruption to applicants plans for getting experience to support their applications and interviews for vet schools. We no longer stipulate a minimum number of weeks of work experience that have to be gained. What we are most interested in are the insights you gained from the work experience you have managed to do. If you had work experienced booked that has been cancelled, please be ready to share the details us on request. In your application and at interview you can also discuss the experience you’d planned but not booked, why you wanted to go to those placements and what you’d hoped to gain from them. We are also interested in what alternatives to work experience you have found in order to gain insights into the veterinary industry.

Please click the following link to find out more about qualification requirements for this course

https://www.harperkeelevetschool.ac.uk/study/432/veterinary-medicine-and-surgery/

Minimum Further Information are not listed for this Course.

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English Language Entry Requirement Information are not listed for this Course.

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England	9250.0	Year 1
Northern Ireland	9250.0	Year 1
Scotland	9250.0	Year 1
Wales	9250.0	Year 1
Channel Islands	19250.0	Year 1
International	33000.0	Year 1

Further information relating to additional costs can be found on the following page in the Fees and Charges guide https://www.harperkeelevetschool.ac.uk/study/key-info/

Harper Adams University
Newport
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Shropshire
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