FURTHER DETAILS
Aims:
To provide:
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Advanced training in Small Animal Clinical Orthopaedics and Translational Clinical
Orthopaedic Research.
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Experience in teaching and communication.
Tuition in scientific methodology and scientific writing.
Qualifications:
A scholar must hold a veterinary degree that is recognised by the Royal College of Veterinary
Surgeons and must be a Member or Fellow of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons and must have completed a rotating Junior Clinical Training Scholarship Programme.
Clinical Training:
This scholarship will include clinical training as a junior member of the Small Animal Orthopaedic team.
Academic Activity:
The Scholar attends daily rounds, journal clubs and other seminars in the appropriate discipline.
The scholar will engage in translational orthopaedic research under the supervision of Prof. Allen
Goodship.
Assessment:
Each JCTS will select one member of staff as their adviser. A standardised assessment form will be used to provide feedback on a Scholar’s performance for each rotation. There will be a formal appraisal shortly after the mid point of the programme.
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The Scholar will write an evaluation of the training programme and will submit it to the Head of the Orthopaedic service during the last month of their training.
Application Procedure:
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Applicants should complete the electronic application form with as much detail as necessary. To apply online, applicants should visit: o www.rvc.uk/postgraduate/cts and click on the Scholarships Available link.
From here applicants should click on the scholarship they are interested in and then click on the Apply Online link contained within the advertisement. o For general information on the scholarships available at the College, applicants are encouraged to click on the following link: www.rvc.ac.uk/postgraduate/cts
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Closing dates for applications:
20 July 2011
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Interviews for shortlisted candidates will be held on:
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22 July 2011
It is the applicant’s responsibility to request letters of recommendation from their referees and to ensure they have given their referees the required time to send in their letters of recommendation by 19 July 2011. Letters should be sent by email to jobs@rvc.ac.uk
- they should come directly from the referee (hard copies are not required if letters are sent by email).
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For a copy of the standard reference form to be sent to referees, please download the
Scholarship Reference Form .
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Applicants are advised that should they be invited to interview, they will be required to bring original copies of the following documentation with them to the interview: o Copies of degree and any postgraduate certificates o Certified transcript of undergraduate degree.
Non-UK applicants should also provide at interview: o Certified translation of non-UK transcript o English Language test result.
It is strongly advised that applicants request these documents from the relevant authorities in good time to ensure that these documents have been obtained by the date of the interviews.
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For any queries regarding the recruitment process, please contact Human Resources
(Recruitment) email: jobs@rvc.ac.uk
or telephone 01707 666037 or 666986.
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Particulars:
You should note that:
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It is intended that the programme will begin in July 2011 and end July 2012.
The tax free stipend is £15,000 per annum. National Insurance contributions are the responsibility of the individual scholar.
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The scholar is entitled to 20 days of annual vacation exclusive of Bank Holidays not covered in the out of hours on call rota.
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Rent-free, partially furnished accommodation is made available through the College.
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Outside professional duties must be disclosed and approved by your supervisor and they must not interfere with Scholarship duties.
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Continuation of the programme is subject to the Scholar attaining satisfactory performance in the mid-year review process.
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The College has a “no smoking” policy and smoking is only permitted in certain designated areas of the College.
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Stipend/PG fees will only be paid for Home/EU applicants who satisfy residency criteria.
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The Royal Veterinary College
The Royal Veterinary College is the oldest veterinary school in the English speaking world and is the largest veterinary school in the UK. A detailed history of the College and details of all facilities can be found by visiting the website: http://www.rvc.ac.uk. The College was awarded top gradings in both the Research Assessment Exercise 2001 and in its most recent Teaching Quality
Assessment exercise. It is the only veterinary school in England that has received Accreditation from the American Veterinary Medical Association.
College Location and Facilities
The College is situated on two campuses, one at Camden Town in North London (the Camden
Campus) and the other on a 230 hectare site in the attractive Hertfordshire countryside near
Potters Bar (the Hawkshead Campus). The two campuses are 15 miles apart and are easily accessible by road and rail.
The Hawkshead Campus mainly houses the Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences, which encompasses the following sections: small and large animal medicine and surgery, population medicine, equine medicine and surgery, the reproduction unit and the divisions of epidemiology and public health. Part of the Departments of Pathology and Infectious Diseases and Veterinary
Basic Sciences are also based at the Hawkshead campus. The campus is also home to the Equine
Referral Hospital, The Queen Mother Hospital for Animals (QMHA), the Large Animal Practice
(LAP) and the Mill Reef Pathology Building. The Learning Resources Centre (Eclipse Building), which includes an improved library facility and houses the College’s administrative offices was completed in September 2003 and the Large Animal Clinical Centre was completed in October
2003. An adjacent site at Boltons Park houses the College’s working farm.
Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences
The Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences was formed following the merger of the
Department of Small Animal Medicine and Surgery and the Department of Farm Animal and
Equine, Medicine and Surgery.
The Department is the largest in the College, comprising over 90 academic staff. There is a substantial postgraduate training programme with postgraduate students, clinical training scholars and research assistants. Eight secretarial members of staff and one departmental superintendent support the administrative work of the department. The Clinical Services Division provides the majority of the technical and animal nursing support staff.
The Department of Veterinary Clinical Sciences is comprised of four academic teaching groups:
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The Small Animal Medicine and Surgery Group
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The Equine Medicine and Surgery Group
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The Farm Animal Health and Production Group
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The Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health Group.
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The Small Animal Medicine and Surgery Group
The Small Animal Medicine and Surgery group provides its staff with excellent facilities for the pursuit of clinical studies and the development of clinical expertise. Its facilities are structured around the twin academic responsibilities of teaching at both undergraduate and graduate level and research, whilst providing the profession with excellence in referral clinical work. The
Group’s primary clinical facilities are its two hospitals, the Queen Mother Hospital for Animals
(QMHA) and the Beaumont Animals’ Hospital (BAH).
The QMHA was designed to become one of the foremost referral centres in Europe. The hospital is modern and well equipped, providing an excellent working environment both for clinical and research activities, with experienced specialists supported by well-trained support staff and a strong CTS programme. These activities are complemented by diagnostic laboratories run in collaboration with the Department of Pathology and Infectious Diseases. An emergency clinic for nineteen local practices has been operational in the QMHA since January 2001 and this business venture will form part of our on-going services to the community.
The BAH is situated at the Camden Campus and provides training for the undergraduate in small animal handling and first opinion practice.
Well-equipped research laboratories on the Hawkshead Campus provide facilities and a focus of expertise, particularly for cellular and molecular biology, for the development of new research in the Department.
The Equine Medicine and Surgery Group
The Equine Referral Hospital acts as a referral centre for second opinion cases in the South East of
England. The hospital sees approximately 700 medical and surgical cases each year. As well as a complete range of state-of-the-art surgical and diagnostic equipment within the hospital, there is also 24-hour direct access to the College’s Department of Pathology and Infectious Diseases, enabling quick results to aid diagnosis. The Hospital employs specialists in equine surgery and medicine and the group currently consists of 11 academic clinicians.
A purpose built barn to house our locomotion research group will allow fundamental techniques developed by our internationally renowned comparative biomechanics group to be utilized on clinical case material to enhance the diagnosis and management of locomotor abnormalities in clinical cases.
The Farm Animal Health and Production Group
Members of this group provide local, regional, national and international consultancy in farm animal and camelid medicine, farm health and production, reproductive and obstetrical medicine, farm animal welfare, nutrition, infectious disease investigation, food quality and public health.
This group conducts clinical teaching and research in the following units:
The Farm Animal Clinical Centre
The Farm Animal Clinical Centre is responsible for all second opinion farm animal cases seen at
The Royal Veterinary College. There are facilities for standing surgery in cows and it also has
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access to the Equine Hospital operating theatres for general anaesthesia in ruminants. It also provides accommodation for treating in-patients for the Farm Animal Practice.
The Farm Animal Practice
The Farm Animal Practice is responsible for the College’s first opinion work on farm animals and camelids and, in a joint venture with a dynamic regional veterinary practice (Northpoint
Veterinary Services), provides herd and flock health service to clients in the south-east.
Welsh Regional Veterinary Centre
The Welsh Region Veterinary Centre (WRVC) has been established to provide a Farm Health
Investigation service to vets and farmers in the south Wales region. The WRVC has been developed under the founding principles of teaching, service, outreach and collaboration.
Alongside the RVC, the principal participants in this strategic cooperation are the
Carmarthenshire College (Coleg Sir Gâr), Welsh Assembly Government, the University of
Aberystwyth and the Veterinary Lab Agency. In addition to serving the regional agricultural community, the WRVC also provides a platform for training undergraduate veterinary students and clinical training scholars in the essential skills needed for the diagnosis and management of problems in population health and production medicine.
Bolton’s Park Farm
The farm is situated at the College’s Bolton’s Park site and its commercial activities are currently managed on behalf of the College by Sentry Farming Limited. The farm provides dairy cows and sheep for animal health teaching and is involved in collaborative research projects such as feed and vaccine trials.
Reproduction research interests are: how the immune system integrates with the endocrine system in cattle and horses, the foetal origins of adult disease, the effects of diet on bovine reproduction and the control of oestrous cycles in horses.
Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health Group
The Veterinary Epidemiology and Public Health Group consists of a multi-disciplinary mix of academics with backgrounds in epidemiology, evidence-based medicine, food safety and economics. The group provides under- and post-graduate training in these areas. It also supports academics across the RVC in quantitative analyses.
The Graduate School
There are over 350 postgraduate students at the RVC as studying as follows:
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Research students (MPhil, PhD, DVetMed)
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Junior and Senior Clinical Training Scholars
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MSc students studying Wild Animal Health and Wild Animal Biology (in collaboration with the Institute of Zoology, London), Veterinary Epidemiology (in conjunction with the
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine) and both an MSc and Diploma in
Control of Infectious Diseases in Animals and in Veterinary Physiotherapy
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MSc and Diploma students studying Livestock Health and Production or Veterinary
Epidemiology and Public Health (by Distance Learning, University of London External
Programme).
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All the above students are registered and tracked during their courses by the Graduate School and student progress is monitored. Short courses to develop student generic skills are organised through the Graduate School. Students have access to Postgraduate Tutors and through the
Postgraduate Student Society (PGSS) have representation on many College committees. Social events are also organised by the PGSS.
The Graduate School was established in 2000 to ensure best practice in graduate education, to ensure effective administration of graduate affairs, to present a strong corporate image in graduate affairs and to maximise recruitment of graduate students. The Head of the Graduate School,
Professor Fiona Cunningham, is supported in the central office on the Camden Campus by two full-time administrators. An induction day provides an introduction to postgraduate training at the RVC and the opportunity to meet with other students.
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DfEE READY RECKONER
WHAT IS YOUR FEE STATUS?
A brief guide for students entering HE institutions
This ‘ready reckoner’ is not intended to be an authoritative interpretation of the law, as that can only be provided by the courts. It is the responsibility of individual Higher Education institutions in England and Wales to classify students for fees purposes against the Education (Fees and
Awards) Regulations 1997, as amended {The Education (Fees and Awards) (Scotland) Regulations
1997 operate in Scotland}.
Universities and other Higher Education institutions in England and Wales may charge fees to
`overseas' students at a higher rate than to `home' students. It is the responsibility of individual higher education institutions to assess the fee status of potential students. You should be classified as a `home' student if you meet all of the three conditions summarised below. The first thing you should do is work out your "relevant date". This will be 1st January, 1st April or 1st September closest to the beginning of the first term of your course.
• Condition 1: If your relevant date is on or after 1st September 1998, you are settled in the
United Kingdom on your relevant date. Being settled in the United Kingdom means that you are ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom AND that there is no restriction on the period for which you may remain in the UK (for example you may have an endorsement in your passport or travel document giving you leave to enter or remain in the UK for an indefinite period).
• Condition 2: For the three year period preceding your relevant date you have been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man.
Ordinary residence may be summarised as being lawfully, habitually and normally resident from choice and for a settled purpose, apart from temporary or occasional absences.
• Condition 3: No part of the three year period of residency described above was wholly or mainly for the purpose of receiving full-time education i.e. if you have received full-time education during that period it should not have been the whole or main purpose for your residency.
If you are unable to fulfil any one of the three conditions described above you may still be charged fees at the `home' rate if you can meet all the conditions that apply to any of the six special limited categories outlined below:
Limited Category 1: You are a national of a member State of the European Union (Austria,
Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, France, Greece, The Republic of Ireland, Italy,
Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and The United Kingdom) or the child of such a national and you have been ordinarily resident in the European Economic
Area (the EU countries and Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway) for the three year period preceding your relevant date for a purpose other than full-time education.
Limited Category 2: You are a European Economic Area migrant worker or the husband,
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wife or child of such a person. The migrant worker must be a British citizen or a national of another European Economic Area country who has entered the United Kingdom for the purpose of employment in the United Kingdom and, brief absences apart, has been employed since last entering the United Kingdom. The potential student must also have been ordinarily resident in the European Economic Area for the three year period preceding their relevant date for a purpose other than full-time education and, if the student is married to the migrant worker, they must be living with their husband or wife in the United Kingdom.
Limited Category 3: You are an exchange student studying in the United Kingdom on a fully reciprocal basis.
Limited Category 4: You are a refugee recognised by Her Majesty's Government and have been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom (including the Channel Islands and the Isle of
Man) since you were recognised as a refugee or you are the husband, wife or child of such a recognised refugee.
Limited Category 5: As an outcome of your asylum application the Home Office has granted you exceptional leave to enter or remain in the United Kingdom and you have been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom (including the Channel Islands and the Isle of
Man) since you were granted that status or you are the husband, wife or child of such a person.
Limited Category 6: This category applies to people with a relevant date before 1
September 2000. All the following conditions must be met:
(a) you must have been ordinarily resident in Hong Kong at any time during the three year period before your relevant date
(b) you must be settled in the United Kingdom on your relevant date i.e. ordinarily resident with no restriction on the period for which you may stay
(c) you must have been subject to United Kingdom immigration control before the start of the three year period preceding your relevant date (all British citizens and certain Commonwealth citizens are not subject to UK immigration control)
(d) if you lived in the United Kingdom before the start of the three year period preceding your relevant date you must not have been settled here i.e. the length of your stay must have been limited by UK Immigration Control.
An institution will treat you as having been ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom, the
Channel Islands and the Isle of Man or the European Economic Area if you would have been so resident at the relevant time but for the fact that you, your husband or wife, your parent, guardian, any other person having parental responsibility for you or any person having care of you while you are a child, is or was temporarily employed outside the area in question.
You will not be required to meet Condition 1 if you were in receipt of a mandatory award for an
HND/DipHE or a first degree course before September 1997 and you are moving on directly to a first degree or postgraduate initial teacher training course for which you are also entitled to a mandatory award.
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