Cambridge Vet School project to enhance education

The University of Cambridge Veterinary School Trust has announced a new £3million building project, which promises to enhance the education of its students.

The developments will take place at both Cambridge Veterinary School and Queen's Veterinary School Hospital.

A clinical skills teaching laboratory will be added, as well as a new pharmacy, accommodation for clinicians and veterinary interns, and a new student teaching consultation room.

Particular areas of both the university and the hospital will also be refurbished as part of the project. The consultation rooms and clinical pathology laboratory will be relocated, and the trust office will be moved to the hospital.

Laura McLeod, a fourth year veterinary student at the university, said:  "The Clinical Skills Lab will make a massive difference to us. We usually only get to see or perform many techniques once or twice while working in the Hospital; to be able to practise these will make us better students and better vets."

The building work is due to begin in June 2013, and already has substantial funds thanks to two generous bequests, according to the trust.

It is hoped the building work will be completed by September 2014, and the trust has launched Camvet Campaign in order to raise the funds required to equip the clinical skills teaching laboratory and consultation rooms.

Image: Queen's Veterinary School Hospital