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- Advancement of the Professions Committee
- Standards Committee
- Audit and Risk Committee
- Education Committee
- Disciplinary Committee
- Charter Case Committee
- Preliminary Investigation Committee and Disciplinary Committee Liaison Committee
- Registration Committee
- Preliminary Investigation Committee
- Paper classification: some definitions
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- About extra-mural studies (EMS)
- EMS requirements
- Information for vet students
- Information for EMS providers
- Information for vet schools
- Temporary EMS requirements
- Practice by students - regulations
- Health and safety on EMS placements
- EMS contacts and further guidance
- Extra-mural studies fit for the future
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- Code of Professional Conduct for Veterinary Surgeons
- Code of Professional Conduct for Veterinary Nurses
- Contact the Advice Team
- XL Bully dog ban
- 'Under care' - guidance
- Advice on Schedule 3
- Controlled Drugs Guidance – A to Z
- Dealing with Difficult Situations webinar recordings
- FAQs – Common medicines pitfalls
- FAQs – Routine veterinary practice and clinical veterinary research
- FAQs – Advertising of practice names
- GDPR – RCVS information and Q&As
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- Accrediting veterinary degrees
- Accrediting veterinary nursing qualifications
- Reasonable adjustments for student vets
- Health and disability in veterinary medicine study and practice
- The role of the veterinary schools and the RCVS
- Reasonable adjustments and the Equality Act 2010
- Reasonable adjustments and Day One Competences
- Examples of reasonable adjustments for vet students
- Annex
- Reasonable adjustments for student vets - summary
- Reasonable adjustments for student veterinary nurses
- Health and disability in veterinary nurse education and training
- Reasonable adjustments for students and the UK disability discrimination legislation
- Educational assessment of veterinary nurses
- Roles of key stakeholders in the application of reasonable adjustments
- Examples of reasonable adjustments for vet nurse students
- Embracing reasonable adjustments for student vet nurses - summary
- External review of the RCVS by ENQA
- Requirements for remote and online student assessments
Document library
Overseas trained VNs Application form A Guidance Notes
31 December 2025 - 538KB PDF
Guidance notes on completion of application for a veterinary nurse trained outside the UK to have their qualification(s) and experience assessed to determine eligibility of an application for inclusion on the RCVS Register of Veterinary Nurses.
Overseas Trained VNs Application Form B
31 December 2025 - 517KB DOCX
Application for a veterinary nurse trained outside the UK to have their qualification(s) and experience assessed to determine eligibility of an application for inclusion on the RCVS Register of Veterinary Nurses Form B - Word version
Pre-registration Candidate Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) Guide January 2026
31 December 2025 - 879KB PDF
Information for pre-registration exam candidates on the practical (OSCE) exam.
RCVS Pre-registration MCQ Candidate Guide January 2026
31 December 2025 - 741KB PDF
Guide for those sitting the RCVS pre-registration Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) theory exam.
C-EBM.1 Equine Behavioural Medicine A
22 December 2025 - 102KB PDF
C-EBM.1 Equine Behavioural Medicine A
C-EBM.2 Equine Behavioural Medicine B
22 December 2025 - 104KB PDF
C-EBM.2 Equine Behavioural Medicine B
Modular combinations for designated certificate in Equine behavioural medicine
22 December 2025 - 94KB PDF
The following Equine Behavioural Medicine modules are available, either as free-standing
modules or as part of the Certificate in Advanced Veterinary Practice and the designated
certificate in Equine Behavioural Medicine.
modules or as part of the Certificate in Advanced Veterinary Practice and the designated
certificate in Equine Behavioural Medicine.
List of RCVS Accredited Higher Education Qualifications in Veterinary Nursing
19 December 2025 - 191KB PDF
List of RCVS Accredited Higher Education Qualifications in Veterinary Nursing