Internship

Westpoint Veterinary Group Internship Programme

The Westpoint Internship Program is run with the RVC's Farm Animal Junior Clinical Training Scholarship (JCTS) program and together they are split into 2 separate areas of study, the Rotating Internship Program and the Practice Internship Program.

Regardless of the program that successful candidates enrol on, all interns will attend a total of 20 days of CPD courses specially designed for the program. These courses will occur regularly throughout the year at various locations around the country. Utilising course tutors that are experts within their field, the areas that will be covered in these courses include:-

The Rotating Internship Program

The Rotating Internship Program consists of three scholars per academic year and involves spending equal amount of time at the RVC's Farm Animal Hospital, the Welsh Regional Veterinary Centre in Carmarthenshire and in the RVC/Northpoint Joint Venture Practice.

Welsh Regional Veterinary Centre, Carmarthenshire

The Welsh Regional Veterinary Centre provides a farm health investigation service to vets and farmers in Wales.

The main remit of the WRVC is to educate final year veterinary students, to prepare them to solve a population centred problem. This problem could be of infectious nature or a production disease, or a combination of both. A key aspect of the investigations is the mutual benefit received by farmer, vet and vet students

During these investigations the Centre's team work with the farmers' own vets to identify problems that might impair the productivity, health or welfare of animals in the herd or flock. The inquiry usually involves a series of farm visits for individual animal examination, production evaluation, and an analysis of any relevant management processes.

RVC Farm Animal Hospital

Based at the RVC's Hawkshead Campus, North Mymms, the Farm Animal Hospital is responsible for the treatment and diagnostic work up of a wide range of clinical cases. The focus will be on individual medicine and surgery, and the hospital takes advantage of the considerable diagnostic and surgical resources of the RVC.

RVC/ Northpoint Joint Venture Practice

From its offices in Essex and Hertfordshire, the JVP is the first opinion arm of the RVC's training program and forms part of the farm animal rotation for final year undergraduates.

Alongside mentoring with the practices senior clinicians, successful intern candidates will participate fully in all activities of the practice including, twice weekly routine fertility visits on farm with a senior vet, weekly fresh cow routines, exposure to all routine surgical operations, out of hours and emergency calls and involvement with veterinary undergraduate teaching.

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