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Business skills for life

RVC takes firm steps to introduce students to business realities. 

The BVetMed course now comprises of compulsory business and enterprise components and have been designed to give students a solid grounding in business. In addition to this, there is already an extended elective option in year five, which draws more than 10% of the year group.

By providing graduates with business skills as well as medical knowledge, future veterinary professionals will find it easier to cope with the commercial pressures that working and managing a practice can bring.

In today's economic climate, graduates need to bring more than just clinical expertise to a job role and more practices will require contributions to business and marketing strategies. RVC hope that the new business components will assist graduates with this.

RVC also plays host to the only European chapter of the Veterinary Business Management Association (VBMA), a student-led co-curricular business club, with around 100 student members.

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VMD invites students to apply for EMS placement

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 The Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) is inviting applications from veterinary students to attend a one-week extramural studies (EMS) placement in July 2026.

Students in their clinical years of study have until 28 February to apply for the placement, which takes place at the VMD's offices in Addlestone, Surrey, from 6-10 July 2026.

Through a mixture of lectures and workshops, the placement will explore how veterinary medicines are authorised, non-clinical career opportunities, and other important aspects of the VMD's work.  

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Survey seeks ruminant sector views on antimicrobial stewardship

A new survey is seeking views of people working in the UK ruminant sector on how to tackle the challenge of demonstrating responsible antibiotic stewardship.

Forming part of a wider, collaborative initiative, the results will help identify the types of data available so that challenges with data collection can be better understood and addressed.

Anyone working in the UK farming sector, including vets and farmers,is encouraged to complete the survey, which is available at app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk