what is the difference between vet science and vet med

please explain. what happens on the courses.
Can you be a practicing vet on finishing either course
Thanking you

Reply 1

I'm not sure what the exact difference is but essentially you get to be a vet at the end of both of them!! Someone else will have to go into all the political differences because I have no idea :redface:

Reply 2

outrageous121

depends where you study - the Liverpool 5 year vet degree is called Veterinary Science - but you can be a vet at the end. Everywhere else the same degree is called veterinary medicine. At RVC (i think) their veterinary science course is only 3 years and you can't practice as a vet at the end :smile:

Reply 3

xxxLucyxxx

As long as when it comes to UCAS time you fill in courses that are D100 or D101 you'll end up as a vet :smile:

Reply 4

*Arwen*

This kind of explains it...

http://www.thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=179857

Reply 5

sarahbeth

the ucas coding thing, if you are a graduate it can be D190 as well (which is the 4 year course!). best plan is to check with each of the universities/double check description on UCAS.

Reply 6

Hawk

The only Vet Science courses in the UK which allow you to practice as a vet are at Liverpool & Bristol.
Any other Vet Science course will most likely be 3 years long and you are not a Vet on graduation.

Reply 7

leggielass

BVSc courses, at liverpool and bristol are based on the scientific thought and reasoning, indepentent stuudy, ssl and pbl, group thinking and solving problems with the clues in front of you. Veterinary medicine is learning veterinary medicine. Gradually, the vet schools are coming round to the idea that the scientific approach is better than learning, so the difference between all the courses is slowly becoming less clear cut.

Reply 8

ha_mint

i hate that liverpool's vet course is called vet science!
vet med sounds so much cooler

Reply 9

leggielass

I don't hate it- its tongue in cheek and groovy. and we're not arrogant enough to mind what we're called!

and people can spot that we're from liverpool just from our post nominals and as everybody knows, liverpool makes good vets!

Reply 10

northern_lass

dont liverpool and bristol both give BVSc tho? so you could be from either?

ther both the same, apart from here (RVC) where the vet sci's are doin a 3 year science degree, whereas vetmeds are the 5 year vet course and D101s are the 6 year.

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