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CAMDEN FACILITIES . . .
HANDS-ON CLINICAL EXPERIENCE THE RVC BEAUMONT SAINSBURY
AND SCIENTIFIC STUDY ANIMAL HOSPITAL
Our historic Camden Campus is where Veterinary Medicine The RVC’s own first-opinion practice and animal hospital is right
(BVetMed) students spend their first two years, or the first year next door to Hobday and is the starting point for hands-on clinical
of the Accelerated BVetMed and Veterinary Gateway, before experience for veterinary medicine and nursing students.
Gateway students join the BVetMed students for another two
years at the Camden Campus. Veterinary medicine students participate in all aspects of client
and patient care, under the supervision of experienced veterinary
Biological Sciences pathway students study at Camden throughout surgeons and Registered Veterinary Nurses. The practice is
their courses, except Animal Biology, Behaviour, Welfare and a leading centre for veterinary nurse training, with students
Ethics students who spend their final year at Hawkshead. supporting the nursing team in the care of animals and client
services under the supervision of veterinary surgeons and
THE HOBDAY BUILDING is the centre of the experienced registered nurses.
Camden Campus. In 2021 it benefitted from its most – see page 20
extensive redevelopment in over 80 years. Approximately
£14 million was invested to provide students with new LONDON BIOSCIENCE
classrooms, extra social learning spaces, an extended INNOVATION CENTRE (LBIC)
dining facility, larger common rooms, and much-improved This is wholly owned by the RVC and is home to over
social areas. It also holds lecture theatres, a learning 40 biotechnology and life sciences companies, from
resource centre, a teaching lab and dissection room. small start-ups to established global organisations,
who regularly provide placements for our Biological
MODERN WORLD-CLASS LABORATORIES Sciences pathway students.
including molecular biology labs with cell culture, as well as
state-of-the-art cell and tissue imaging facilities.
10 HISTORY-MAKING • WORLD-LEADING • LIFE-CHANGING
