veterinary students handbook the first two years - Downing College

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Each student will be allocated a Clinical Supervisor who will advise on EMS, both preclinical and later clinical. If you have not been contacted by your Clinical Supervisor before the end of the second week of term please contact Katheryn Ayres (kma28@cam.ac.uk). Principles of Animal Management This course is designed to provide basic animal health teaching and to ensure that students obtain maximum benefit from their EMS. The aims of the course are to provide you with an understanding of UK agriculture and the roles of veterinary surgeons within the industry, to teach you basic animal husbandry of the major farm animal species, and to ensure that you have a common understanding of fundamental concepts of nutrition. The course consists of lectures, computer assisted learning (CAL) packages and practicals. The CAL packages are available via the internet from the Vet School website. Although slots have been timetabled for the use of CAL, students are free to use the packages at their own convenience, in College, at home, or using central computing resources. A Second Vet MB examination for the course will be held at the end of the Lent term of your first year. As a Second Vet MB exam, the marks will not contribute to the Part I Tripos classification, but you must achieve a pass in order to be eligible for progression to the clinical course. Second Year Courses Five courses are assessed for Second Vet MB and Tripos, and they cover: • the mechanisms by which drugs act upon the body in Mechanisms of Drug Action (MODA) • the biological processes underlying disease in Biology of Disease (BOD) • the structure and function of animal reproductive systems in Veterinary Reproductive Biology (VRB) • the structure and function of the sense organs and the central nervous system and basis of animal behaviour in Neurobiology and Animal Behaviour (NAB) • further veterinary anatomy in Comparative Vertebrate Biology (CVB) One course is assessed for Second Vet MB only, and during this course you will: • further develop your experience in Preparing for the Veterinary Profession (PfVP) Summaries of the subject matter in these courses and detailed timetables will be provided in the individual course handbooks and on the MVST website. The Third Year After two years (unless you are an affiliated student) you do a further year’s study and take a final Tripos exam to complete the requirements for the BA degree. In April 2014, you will be asked to state preferences for which course(s) you want to take in your third year. If you are an affiliated student, you will start the clinical part of your course in Cambridge in September 2014. A huge advantage of the Cambridge system is that it offers an enormous range of courses in your third year. You may choose to take in-depth courses in many of the subjects you studied in the first two years, or you may take courses in something rather different, such as Anthropology, Management Studies or Philosophy, or you may decide to combine different subjects via a course such as NST Part II Biological and Biomedical Sciences. 14
Your Director of Studies will be able to help you make a decision about what to take in the third year, and there will be an opportunity for you to attend a Subjects Fair in March 2014 where the various course organisers will set up their stalls and explain what they offer. The Clinical Veterinary Curriculum The clinical training is an integrated core teaching programme based on separate but related courses given over the first six terms of the three clinical years. Some courses have a body systems basis (alimentary) and some a discipline (anaesthesia) or species basis (equine). Alongside this there is small group practical teaching on a rotational basis dealing with such things as clinical methods, post mortem work, radiography, clinical pathology and gynaecology. Regular formal assessment takes the form of course exams spread throughout the five terms, the aim being to encourage steady work and personal development. There is a proportion of elective work in the clinical course with fourth year veterinary public health assignments and sixth year clinical electives, when students can choose areas of interest to study in greater depth than in the core curriculum. The final three terms are essentially lecture-free and consist of small group rotational work through the clinics of the Department of Veterinary Medicine. There is an increasing emphasis on students taking responsibility for their own learning and development, with case and client management under supervision. Continuous assessment forms an important part of this rotational work and contributes marks towards the Final Veterinary Exam Part (III) that completes the course at the end of the sixth term. Students, on passing this exam, can then be registered as members of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons. Throughout the clinical years students undertake a minimum of 26 weeks extra mural training in veterinary practices and other establishments, sometimes with overseas experience. The formal objectives of the clinical course are set out below, and the foundations for many of these are laid in the pre-clinical course. Programme outcomes The clinical veterinary course occupies the final 9 terms of the 18 term veterinary course at Cambridge. On completion of the first level of the clinical course (Final Vet MB Part I & Part II), at the beginning of the 6 th term of the clinical course (12 th term of whole course), students should have: Knowledge and understanding • a knowledge of the structure and function of healthy animals, which will allow students to recognise and understand abnormal and disease states of body systems; • a sympathetic understanding of the handling, management and nutrition of domesticated animals and of their needs in health and disease; • a knowledge of the principles and practice of preventive veterinary medicine and veterinary public health; • a knowledge of reproductive physiology and genetics sufficient to understand breeding management in large and small animals; 15
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