UK - School of Veterinary Medicine and Science, Nottingham
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Nottingham Vet School is the first brand new, purpose-built veterinary school in the UK for over 50 years and it is our intent to make significant leading contributions to both veterinary research and teaching within the context of valid relevance and application to the wider veterinary profession.
About Us
Opened in 2006, the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science is set to become a UK leader in its field. The School has a dynamic, vibrant and highly stimulating teaching and research environment which is achieved through an international blend of students and researchers who are committed to innovative learning and scientific discovery. It is the newest School addition to the University of Nottingham and is situated on the rural Sutton Bonington Campus located 10 miles south of Nottingham city.
Needless to say, as a new School we have state-of-the-art purpose built facilities for both research and teaching. A Teaching Building comprises a lecture theatre, large seminar room, teaching laboratories and a number of small-group teaching rooms, together with staff offices and research facilities including generic laboratories and specialist facilities such as anaerobic / microbiology, RNA and radioisotope laboratories. A Clinical Building includes a large anatomy laboratory, surgery suite, teaching laboratories, seminar rooms, a large clinical skills laboratory and other clinical skills rooms together with animal facilities.
Education
At a time when the veterinary world is facing many new challenges, it is our aim to equip our undergraduate students with the diagnostic, medical, surgical and other skills required to succeed in a changing world. We offer three exciting and innovative undergraduate degree courses which are designed to provide our students with the skills and experience they will need to become practising veterinary surgeons.
The curriculum combines a clinically-focused basic science programme, relevant clinical learning opportunities with integrated research. We believe that the development of our innovative curriculum meets the industry need for veterinary graduates with practical and problem-solving abilities, an understanding of the need for lifelong learning and confidence and competence in their skills at graduation. Our undergraduate veterinary course brings students into contact with animals and clinical case scenarios from the very beginning of the course.
We also provide a diverse, vibrant and stimulating environment for research and consultancy, and are ranked top for research in the UK.
Current Research
The academic staff of the School work within 5 strategic research areas: Infection and Immunity; Population Health and Welfare; Comparative Medicine; Reproductive Biology and Veterinary Educational Research. Our research is closely aligned with that in the School of Biosciences with whom we share some research facilities and equipment. The involvement of our Clinical Associates and other organisations within our research programs enables the identification of clinical problems in the field and the rapid application of investigational science to these problems in both production and companion animal species.
The diversity of research interests among academic members of staff, together with the collaborative nature of our research, extensive state-of-the-art research facilities and excellent technical expertise provided by skilled laboratory technicians and up to date information technology places us at the leading edge of veterinary research and development. In the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science joint submission with the School of Biosciences was ranked first in the country for the power of its research with 95% of its activities classified at an international standard.
Clinical Services
Clinical education and experience on the undergraduate programme is completed in the lecture free final year through Clinical Practice Modules, in which students work alongside local clinical staff and university academic staff placed in Clinical Associate Institutions. The Clinical Practice Modules provide experience of all domestic species, livestock production systems and wildlife conservation, as well as pathology and public health.
Our approach to Clinical Practice Module teaching provides students with experience of first and second opinion cases and will result in the completion of the acquisition of true 'Day One' competencies. Teaching and learning is based upon observation, discussion and practical experience; at each institution, students are under the supervision of university academic staff placed at, and working within, the institution.
Although the Clinical Associates will be primarily involved in Year 5 Clinical Practice Module rotations, some are also involved in teaching delivery in earlier years. The School is also installing "teaching and learning observatories" - videoconferencing facilities allowing the real-time delivery of clinical material into the school from the Clinical Associates' premises.
The school's Clinical Associates are:
- Defence Animal Centre (DAC)
- Dick White Referrals
- Dovecote Veterinary Hospital
- Minster Veterinary Practice
- Oakham Veterinary Hospital
- PDSA
- Scarsdale Veterinary Group
- Twycross Zoo
- Veterinary Laboratories Agency (VLA)
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