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HAWKSHEAD FACILITIES . . .







        HANDS-ON CLINICAL EXPERIENCE                          RVC SMALL ANIMAL REFERRALS is one of the
        AND SCIENTIFIC STUDY –                                largest and most advanced veterinary hospitals in the world,
        The Hawkshead Campus in Hertfordshire, houses facilities   treating over 9,000 cases each year. Veterinary Medicine
        to deliver both the theoretical and practical elements of our   and Nursing students spend much of their clinical experience
        courses. It is where our veterinary medicine students are   working here – meeting and treating patients and learning to
        based for their final three years, alongside student veterinary   carry out procedures – all supervised by expert senior vets
        nurses, final year Animal Biology, Behaviour, Welfare and Ethics   and vet nurses.
        students and specialists-in-training.                 – see page 51
        Hawkshead, is currently undergoing the largest and most
        ambitious single capital development the RVC has ever   RVC EQUINE RUNS BOTH AN EQUINE
        undertaken. Opening in 2023, our new Student Learning Centre   PRACTICE AND REFERRAL HOSPITAL –
        will provide new teaching laboratories, a library, a main lecture   combining a first opinion equine-only ambulatory practice with
        theatre alongside seminar areas, bookable study rooms and   24-hour emergency and referral services, complemented by
        informal social learning spaces. Hawkshead already houses   world-leading research with the largest number of RCVS Equine
        modern lecture theatres and laboratories, a large library and   Specialists of any UK veterinary teaching hospital. Veterinary
        learning resource centre.                             Medicine students undertake Equine rotations as part of their
                                                              clinical training.
        The redevelopment has significantly increased our research   – see page 52
        facilities, including the launch of the RVC Centre for Vaccinology
        and Regenerative Medicine. This is the latest specialist centre   BOLTONS PARK FARM – our farm animal teaching
        on campus which already houses the Centre for Emerging and   facility is located approximately 1 mile from the main campus.
        Endemic Diseases, Structure and Motion Laboratories, Clinical   The farm has 200 hectares of mainly grazing land, as well as 20
        Skills Centre, and Clinical Investigations Centre.    hectares of ancient mixed woodland.
                                                              – see page 53
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