UnIversity of Surrey School of Veterinary Medicine
Guildford, Surrey GU2 7XH, UK T: +44 (0) 1483 689 165 E: [email protected] surrey.ac.uk/vet
Training the veterinary professionals of the future
Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in this publication at the time of going to press. 6313-1113 The University reserves the right, however, to introduce changes to the information given. November 2013 The University of Surrey School of Veterinary Medicine CONTENTS
We are delighted to have risen to 8th position in the Guardian University Guide 2014, up from 12th position last year.
We also climbed 14 places to 12th position in the Times/Sunday Times Good University Guide, nine places to 13th in the Complete University Guide 2014 and are now rated number two in Over 1000 partner organisations work with us to the South East, second only to Oxford University provide students from all parts of the University with 2 in both tables. vital experience of the professional environment.
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Our Programmes ���������������������������������� 8 The results of the latest National Student Survey Our Staff ������������������������������������������������� 10 (NSS) revealed that our students are happier with Our Partners ����������������������������������������� 12 their studies at Surrey than ever before. A record-breaking 92 per cent* of respondents Research Case Studies ��������������������� 16 expressed their satisfaction with the overall quality Work With Us �������������������������������������� 20 of their higher education, a rise of two per cent from 2012. The result helped us climb to ninth in the overall NSS table.
*Overall student satisfaction rate, National Student Survey 2013
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The last Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) rated 99% of our research units world-leading, internationally excellent, or recognised either nationally or internationally. Our biomedical research was ranked in the top 5% in the country.
We are also proud to have won three Queen’s Anniversary Prizes in recognition of our ground- breaking research in a number of key areas, as 16 well as four other Queen’s Awards, making an impressive total of seven since 1991.
surrey.ac.uk surrey.ac.uk/vet Facts About Surrey 1 Title Welcome
Over the last four years, we have been developing our strategy to expand upon our activities at the interface between human and animal health. The result is our new £40m School of Veterinary Medicine, opening in autumn 2014.
We were delighted to receive funding from HEFCE’s catalyst fund scheme towards our new veterinary Clinical Skills Centre, which will provide the next generation of veterinary surgeons with an outstanding facility and give them the best possible preparation for real-life clinical practice.
As a research-intensive university, we have the expertise, reputation, technical and business skills which our students can benefit from, allowing us to train the veterinary leaders of the future.
The School of Veterinary Medicine sits within the University of Surrey’s Faculty of Health and Medicine Sciences, alongside the School of Biosciences and Medicine and the School of Health and Social Care. The three schools work together under a ‘One Health’ vision to provide forward-thinking interdisciplinary research and teaching to improve the health of humans and animals.
Combining major investment in state-of-the-art facilities, our partnerships and a campus location, the new School will provide a stimulating environment, not only for our undergraduate students, but for the professional development training of qualified veterinary surgeons.
The School will embrace the spirit of scientific curiosity, the opportunities for multi-disciplinary and translational research and the health benefits these can bring for animals and humans.
We are now actively seeking support from national and international donors, to help us achieve our strong vision for the new School. For more information on how you can get involved please turn to page 20.
Our vision is to create a School at the centre of excellence for veterinary medicine and science in the South East. Please do read on to find out more about our plans and discover how you can join us on our journey to train the veterinary professionals of the future.
Professor Lisa Roberts Executive Dean of the Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
2 surrey.ac.uk/vet Welcome 3 Introduction We will deliver world- leading, multi-discplinary, translational research and The University of Surrey strives for the highest innovative education through standards in teaching, scholarship and research local and global partnerships with a global impact. to benefit veterinary and human medicine. There are currently only seven schools of veterinary medicine in the UK. We believe that there is a strong and continued demand for veterinary medicine programmes. Our Veterinary Medicine and Science BVMSci programme will train veterinary professionals with a global perspective and a spirit of scientific inquiry. Cross-faculty teaching and exposure to state-of-the-art veterinary practices will facilitate the integration of basic fundamental disciplines such as engineering, physics, climate research and material sciences into the curriculum.
Our strengths, and the co-location of these areas at Surrey, will enable us to offer a distinctive edge over current programmes.
Our Mission To inspire and educate veterinary professionals who will advance veterinary medicine to meet the needs of a changing world.
Our Vision To educate confident and compassionate veterinarians committed to animal welfare, who through clinical and scientific excellence, contribute significantly to society with professionalism and integrity.
We will deliver world-leading, multi-disciplinary, translational research and innovative education through local and global partnerships to benefit veterinary and human medicine.
4 surrey.ac.uk/vet Introduction 5 Our School
The new School, based on our Guildford campus, at the heart of our Manor Park site, embraces the ‘One Health – One Medicine’ philosophy to foster interdisciplinary collaborations in research and health care for humans and animals. We aim to develop veterinary professionals who fully understand and can positively exploit the complementary relationship between research and clinical skills.
The campus location will encourage dynamic collaboration between students and staff from different disciplines across the University. Our Veterinary Medicine students will benefit from exposure to innovative technology in engineering and physics and receive training in core business skills from The Surrey Business School. Our graduates will be well-rounded, business-minded and prepared for a range of careers, able to work at the heart of the response to global issues concerning animal and public health.
Top facilities A professional centre for learning The School will offer a state-of-the-art teaching and learning Our new facilities will act as a unique training resource for the environment, including a brand new veterinary pathology whole veterinary community and facilitate lifelong learning laboratory, opened in February 2013. opportunities for all practising veterinary surgeons, veterinary nurses, clinical scientists and other para-professionals. The new School buildings – due to open in autumn 2015 – have been designed by leading architecture firm Devereux We offer a range of stimulating Continuing Professional Architects. They will comprise: an academic building, a Development programmes, including the option to study veterinary Clinical Skills Centre – funded by £4.9m from the individual modules from our MSc Veterinary Microbiology. Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) – Working with our veterinary partners, we also facilitate and a veterinary pathology facility. workshops and short courses. Recent events and specialist subject debates include Emerging and Re-emerging The Clinical Skills Centre buildings will include: Infectious Equine Diseases; Integrating Veterinary Pathology • Livestock and companion animal handling and into Basic Science; Medical Ethics Forum for Vets and Doctors; examination areas Equine Endocrinology and The 6th International Conference • A locomotion laboratory on Colonic Spirochaetal Infections in Animals and Humans. • A haptics laboratory • A mock veterinary practice A major contributor to the local economy • Seminar rooms and an inter-personal skills training centre Our £40m new School is expected to create around 100 new jobs including 65 new posts within the University and joint A wonderful location academic posts with partner institutions, as well as numerous The University campus is a landscaped, self-contained site support staff roles. just outside Guildford town centre. Central London is only A list of frequently asked questions 30 minutes away by train from the nearby station, and the The new development will facilitate the clustering of about the School of Veterinary Medicine major international airports at Heathrow and Gatwick are pioneering veterinary and health initiatives around the also both within easy reach. campus and neighbouring Surrey Research Park, with the aim is available on our website. of stimulating private sector investment, continued economic development and the generation of jobs. surrey.ac.uk/vet/FAQs/index.htm In addition, being in close proximity to the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford, the centre will offer a unique opportunity for engineers, physicists and material scientists to work in collaboration with veterinary surgeons and clinical scientists.
6 surrey.ac.uk/vet Our School 7 Our programmes
With a forward-thinking approach to veterinary education, our School of Veterinary Medicine will provide students with an outstanding educational experience and the skills to excel in their chosen profession.
Our ambitious plans will see the first cohort of students embark on our exciting five-year Veterinary Medicine and Science programme in September 2014.
Veterinary Medicine and Science (BVMSci)* Our Veterinary Medicine and Science degree programme has been created to foster interdisciplinary collaborations to improve human and animal health. In addition to studying towards their professional veterinary medicine qualification*, students will receive training in professional and business skills and will benefit from using our brand new veterinary Clinical Skills Centre, veterinary pathology facility and cutting-edge technology in engineering, materials sciences and physics.
It is the School’s intention to work with forward-thinking local veterinary surgeries, regional world-leading veterinary research institutes and our existing global partners to enhance students’ opportunities in the field of veterinary medicine.
Each year of the programme comprises two semesters of 20 weeks, including examination time. Students are also expected to complete an additional eight weeks of Extra-Mural Study (EMS) each year.
An integrated body system-based curriculum takes the students’ understanding from normal function to abnormal and back to normal through a vertically-integrated spiral exposure to content. Hands-on animal experience, communications training with actors, and business and information literacy training will develop the students’ confidence We launched our BSc Veterinary Biosciences for real world clinical placements. The Surrey vet will be well prepared programme in 2009 and our MSc Veterinary to contribute to the veterinary profession through this progressive Microbiology programme in October 2012. educational approach.
For more information and entry requirements, visit: surrey.ac.uk/undergraduate/veterinary-medicine-science For information about our programmes visit: * surrey.ac.uk/subjects/veterinary-medicine-science RCVS approval. To practise as a veterinary surgeon in the UK you must be registered as a member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS). The RCVS inspects UK universities for the purposes of advising the Privy Council on whether a veterinary degree course should be recognised. To learn more, visit: surrey.ac.uk/content/rcvs-approval.
8 surrey.ac.uk/vet Our Programmes 9 Our Staff Professor Professor Professor Christopher Proudman Roberto La Ragione Gail Anderson Head of the School of Veterinary Medicine Associate Dean (Veterinary Strategy) & Head of Veterinary Education Surrey is home to leading experts Professor of Veterinary Microbiology & Pathology in the field of veterinary medicine and science. I have more than 20 years’ experience as an I’ve held senior clinical and leadership roles in The School is investing in 65 new posts equine clinician, clinical teacher and researcher. I hold a joint position with the Animal Health universities and private practice in both Canada within the University and joint academic and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA). My and Australia, and served as inaugural Dean for I joined Surrey from the University of Liverpool where posts with partner institutions, as well as research focuses on understanding the interaction the new School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences I held a variety of managerial and leadership roles numerous support staff roles. at the University of Adelaide. including the development of external partnerships. between zoonotic pathogens and animal hosts in My research is informed by my clinical experience in order to develop novel control strategies. Our passionate research and teaching equine gastroenterology; I currently supervise projects Most recently, I was Senior Associate Dean for Veterinary staff have a wealth of experience in key using metabolomics and metagenomics to investigate I have always been interested in biology and specifically Education and Department Head for Professional Skills, areas including veterinary bacteriology, equine gastrointestinal health and disease. infectious diseases. Over the past 15 years my research has Ethics and Welfare at Ross University School of Veterinary veterinary epidemiology, veterinary enabled me to be involved in a number of international Medicine in St Kitts, West Indies. virology, veterinary microbiology and I’m really excited to have the opportunity to use my projects to study how new and emerging pathogens evolve pathology, musculoskeletal biology and veterinary leadership experience to help develop an and subsequently cause disease in animals and humans. I’m passionate about education and helping students veterinary neurology. exciting and innovative School of Veterinary Medicine. to further their potential. My goal is to ensure that our I hope that we can attract partners from the profession, I enjoy working as a veterinary scientist as each day brings graduating veterinarians are engaged to their fullest extent from industry and from the research community to help a new set of challenges. The work is extremely varied and with all the possibilities that the veterinary profession has deliver our vision of a 21st century vet school. enables me to interface with many different disciplines to offer. and have a real impact on veterinary public health issues.
I am very much looking forward to delivering the new School of Veterinary Medicine in collaboration with our national and international partners.
10 surrey.ac.uk/vet Our Staff 11 Our partners Animal Health and Veterinary Laboratories Agency (AHVLA) Fitzpatrick Referrals Royal Surrey County Hospital Weybridge, Surrey Eashing, Godalming, Surrey Guildford, Surrey The University enjoys a unique • Formed 1 April 2011, following the merger of Animal Health • Founded in 2007 by Noel Fitzpatrick • A leading general hospital and specialist tertiary centre geographical position and excellent and the Veterinary Laboratories Agency • Has the most advanced rehabilitation facilities for small for cancer, oral and maxillo-facial surgery and pathology • An executive agency working on behalf of the Department animals in the UK • Serves a population of 320,000 for emergency and relationships with a range of partners. for the Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra), Scottish • Has developed special expertise in several novel arenas, general hospital services Government and Welsh Government performed several world firsts and set new standards in • Has an annual income of £257 million, 527 beds and The School of Veterinary Medicine’s close • Its role is to safeguard animal health and welfare as well cutting-edge medical and surgical techniques 14 operating theatres proximity to the Royal Surrey County Hospital as public health, protect the economy and enhance food • Joint appointments with Surrey: Noel Fitzpatrick, • Employs approximately 3,000 staff will facilitate direct collaborations between security through research, surveillance and inspection Professor of Veterinary Orthopaedics and Stuart medical and veterinary disciplines. This ‘One • Joint appointments with Surrey include Professor Roberto Carmichael, Professor of Veterinary Science VMD – Veterinary Medicines Directorate Health - One Medicine’ philosophy is at the La Ragione, Associate Dean (Veterinary Strategy) , Dr Alan New Haw, Surrey heart of our School. Stevens, Research Fellow in Veterinary Pathology and Mark Liphook Equine Hospital • Aims to protect public health, animal health, the Chambers, Professor in Veterinary Bacteriology Liphook, Hampshire environment and promote animal welfare by assuring Other partners, including the Animal Health and • One of the largest specialist veterinary practices in the UK the safety, quality and efficacy of veterinary medicines Veterinary Laboratories Agency, BBSRC Pirbright BBSRC Pirbright Institute • The Liphook Equine Hospital is a fully equipped, state- • Established in 1989 Institute, Fitzpatrick Referrals, Liphook Equine Pirbright, Surrey of-the-art referral hospital providing 24-hour care to • An executive agency of the Department for the Hospital, Marwell Wildlife, Westpoint Veterinary • Formerly the Institute for Animal Health horses, ponies and donkeys referred both from its own Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) Group, and VMD are based within 40 miles or • A unique national centre which enhances the UK’s capability practice and from veterinary practices across the UK less of the University. to control, contain and eliminate viral diseases of animals Westpoint Veterinary Group through innovative fundamental and applied bioscience Marwell Wildlfe Warnham, West Sussex We will also be working with forward- • Made a major contribution to the global eradication of Winchester, Hampshire thinking local veterinary surgeries to provide • Westpoint Veterinary Group started as a single handed cattle plague (Rinderpest) and protected the UK from comprehensive, ‘real world’ professional • Founded in 1972 and dedicated to the conservation of veterinary practice in Warnham in 2000 bluetongue disease when it was ranging in Europe in 2007 experience for our students. biodiversity and other natural resources • It’s now the largest veterinary group in the UK • Joint appointments with Surrey include Dr Karin Darpel, • Home to more than 200 exotic and endangered species specialising in production animals, with 17 practices Lecturer in Veterinary Virology A global outlook • Registered charity country-wide The University of Surrey is a founding member • Joint appointment with Surrey: Dr Tim Potter, Lecturer of the trilateral University Global Partnership in Farm Animal Medicine & Surgery Network (UGPN) with North Carolina State University (NCSU) and the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil.
Both have strong and well established Colleges
ASSURING THE SAFETY, QUALITY & EFFICACY of Veterinary Medicine, and we are currently OF VETERINARY MEDICINES working with them to develop an exciting collaborative initiative to provide teaching, summer scholarships and research exchanges for some of our students. Miles
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12 surrey.ac.uk/vet Our Partners 13 I am enthusiastic about the possibility of strengthening our current links and building a more strategic alignment between the University of Surrey and The Pirbright Institute.
The University and AHVLA A School of Veterinary have been working Medicine close to Pirbright together for a number will provide considerable of years on the co- added value for both of The Royal Surrey County development and teaching us. It will build on the In the future, production Hospital fully supports of veterinary sciences teaching links we have animal veterinary the establishment of a education and on joint already established in your clinicians and scientists new School of Veterinary research programmes. Veterinary Biosciences and The University of Surrey will face a number of Medicine at the University Veterinary Microbiology I have strong interests is a natural home for considerations and of Surrey. Our existing Safeguarding animal courses. While covering in clinical research, a School of Veterinary challenges, including relationship with the health and welfare and the required veterinary professional development Medicine and we share the global food market, University is a strong and public health are the core curriculum, I hope that and education, and many of the same responsible use of productive one. We very missions of the AHVLA the School will specialise believe interaction with goals – the provision of medicines in food– much welcome the chance and the investment of in livestock veterinary students and other opportunity, the attitude producing animals, animal for new and exciting cross- further expertise and studies and research clinicians is a vital and of excellence and the welfare and global diseases, collaborations between training in these areas and use our facilities mutually beneficial possibility for the delivery including those that both our medical professionals with the University of and expertise to train exercise. I look forward of an unprecedented man and beast share. and Surrey’s veterinarians Surrey is therefore very the next and succeeding to further developing platform, where cross- The University of Surrey in the interests of attractive. The AHVLA is generations of livestock the relationship between pollination of philosophy offers a wealth of resources promoting the ‘One looking forward to further vets and research focused Liphook Equine Hospital and techniques could and support to meet the Health-One Medicine’ collaborating on the vets. The country needs, and the University change the concept of ‘one’ needs of both current and agenda to benefit both development of the School and will continue to need, of Surrey. medicine forever. future veterinarians. human and animal health. of Veterinary Medicine. this expertise.
Andy Durham MRCVS Noel Fitzpatrick MRCVS Jon Mouncey MRCVS Nick Moberley Chris Hadkiss Professor John Fazakerley Liphook Equine Hospital Fitzpatrick Referrals Westpoint Veterinary Group Royal Surrey County Hospital AHVLA The Pirbright Institute
14 surrey.ac.uk/vet Our Partners 15 A leader in Securing safer food veterinary research for the future
We want to change the world by shaping Foodborne diseases are a major global public how vets, doctors and scientists work health threat. Academics from the University together in the future. of Surrey’s School of Veterinary Medicine are working with colleagues from universities Our world-class academic staff and dynamic in America and Brazil to understand the partnerships with prominent research institutions spread of antibiotic resistance in bacterial and state-of-the-art veterinary surgeries drive our research agenda. foodborne pathogens. The project aims to develop better mechanisms for monitoring Our Veterinary Medicine and Science programme and controlling resistance to antibiotics used will have a strong focus on research and veterinary in food animal production. pathology, areas where there is strong demand for, and a shortage of, veterinary experts. At Surrey, research will focus on identifying the specific genes that are associated with antibiotic resistance and Our major research strengths include: how the genes influence the pathogen’s behaviour in • Infectious diseases and zoonoses different environments. These studies will inform on • Veterinary pathology the ability of foodborne pathogens to cause diseases • Food safety and food security in animals and humans and thus help us to develop • Veterinary epidemiology control strategies. • Nutrition and metabolism of disease • Veterinary orthopaedics The research has been funded through the Universities Global Partnership Network (UGPN), an organisation For more on our veterinary research, visit designed to help leading universities — including the surrey.ac.uk/subjects/veterinary-medicine-science University of Surrey, North Carolina State University and the University of São Paulo — develop collaborative research, learning and teaching by working together on issues of global importance.
Professor Roberto La Ragione, Associate Dean for Veterinary Strategy, said: “This project will allow us to understand how mobile genetic elements contribute to the emergence of highly virulent and antibiotic resistant strains of common foodborne pathogens. A greater understanding of the genetic makeup of these important pathogens will enable us to develop more pragmatic control strategies in the future.”
16 surrey.ac.uk/vet Research Case Studies 17 Fuelling the fight against infectious disease Pioneering communications technology The University of Surrey is home to ground-breaking tuberculosis research and knowledge relating to human and The University of Surrey is developing animal disease. a multimillion pound 5G Innovation Centre that will spearhead international Our research is focussed on applying systems- based approaches to investigating the host- research into the next generation of pathogen interaction in order to develop better mobile communication technology. drugs and vaccines for humans and animals. It ranges from the fundamental level of the The School of Veterinary Medicine aspires to be metabolic and gene regulatory exchanges among the first to benefit from this emerging between pathogen and host cells to studies technology and utilise opportunities from of the host immune response and vaccine and 5G research to offer our partners in practice diagnostic development. Surrey researchers were immediate access to our services and results the first to develop an in silico model of the TB from diagnostic submissions. bacillus. They used the model to demonstrate that the pathogen responds to stress by shifting 5G promises the ability to deliver up-to-date its metabolism toward novel metabolic pathways information and support into the hands of to assimilate and dissimilate nutrients. They have veterinary surgeons in the clinic or field. As our also investigated how the pathogen adapts to animal health surveillance intelligence develops, an intracellular lifestyle, identifying, for the first we also have the ambition to provide close to time, the nutrients that it obtains from host real-time alerts of any important health events. cells; as well as characterising how the pathogen remodels the macrophage phagosome in order to 5G offers exciting possibilities to collect large survive and replicate. datasets concerning animal health including, for example, clinical information directly from Our academics are utilising BioBrick synthetic the field. These advances provide completely biology systems — DNA sequences of defined new approaches to determining the health of structure and function, designed to be composed individuals and populations. and incorporated into living cells such as E. coli to construct new biological systems — to engineer The synergy between this innovation in mobile new vaccines, as well as performing detailed communications and our integrated approach to proteomic analysis of the tuberculin diagnosis veterinary science will place Surrey at the cutting reagent to develop novel diagnostics. edge of the One Health agenda.
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Join us on our journey to change the face of veterinary education and train the If you wish to find out more about veterinary leaders of future. how you can become involved and help and support the development The development of the School of Veterinary Medicine please contact: is a major initiative for the University of Surrey and will involve the creation of many exciting partnerships. Chris Gethin, Director of Development The University is actively seeking support from national T: +44 (0) 1483 689210 and international donors as well as the local Surrey E: [email protected] community to help make the School the best it can be, with the most up-to-date facilities and pioneering research programmes that aim to advance animal To find out how you could become a partner health, care and wellbeing. in education with us please contact: Emily Thomas There will be many possibilities for engaging with Senior Adminstrator - Veterinary Placements us as the School develops, including support and T: 01483 683025 sponsorship for: E: [email protected] • Research to improve both animal and human health • Equipment and facilities to enhance the best quality of teaching and research and highest standards of More details on Surrey’s new School of animal welfare Veterinary Medicine are available at: • Student scholarships and bursaries to enable the surrey.ac.uk/vet best and brightest students to come to Surrey regardless of their financial means • The development of a prominent clinical skills Course enquiries: facility and pathology facility • Practice partnerships with regional veterinary T: +44 (0) 1483 686722 or E: [email protected] practices to offer training for our students
Your support will help: • Shape the next generation of research and developments in animal health, welfare and global food security • Enable the best and brightest of students to study veterinary medicine, regardless of their financial means and to become the ambassadors and leaders of their profession • Create veterinary professionals with a global perspective, a spirit of scientific inquiry and a strong regard for the human-animal bond
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