Hands-on Clinical Experience - Small Animal Referrals
Our small animal referrals service is based at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals at our Hawkshead Campus. The hospital is the largest referral hospital in Europe, with the greatest concentration of veterinary specialists and specialists-in-training (over 100 from over 10 countries).
We offer a responsive, friendly and helpful service to referring vets and pet owners 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. Our world-class specialists and clinicians treat over 17,000 animals each year, leading the way in clinical practice and are at the cutting-edge of veterinary medicine.
Veterinary Medicine students will spend time on their clinical rotations (in their 4th year and final year) to work and learn in the QMHA. You will dedicate time to gaining practical clinical experience with real life cases, consolidating your learning about diagnosis and management of animal diseases.
Veterinary Nursing students have the opportunity to work and learn in the small animal referrals hospital, developing practical care skills, client care, and management.
The experience gained in our hospitals will expand your knowledge and understanding of how veterinary practices and organisations operate, and help you develop your soft skills and become confident in case management. This is a vital part of graduating from your course ready for work.
Services
- Anaesthesia and analgesia
- Behaviour clinic
- Cardiology
- Critical care
- Dermatology
- Diagnostic imaging
- Emergency referral
- Exotics
- First Opinion Emergency
- Internal Medicine
- Neurology and neurosurgery
- Nutrition
- Oncology
- Ophthalmology
- Orthopaedic surgery
- Physiotherapy and rehabilitation
- Soft tissue surgery
- Transfusion medicine
Remi Onabolu, BSc Veterinary Nursing
I completed a four week placement at the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals (QMHA) in the Emergency Service. I was initially nervous about this, but the staff in the hospital were very patient with me and are great teachers.
I really enjoyed the fact that we got to experience working with interesting cases and I was able to practice taking bloods, see cutting-edge surgery and got to increase my confidence working in emergency situations.
More information about our Small Animal Referral Service here