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- Standards Committee
- Advancement of the Professions 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
Financial support for EMS students
This page provides details of bursaries, grants and loans awarded by external organisations or vet schools.
The list below is not exhaustive and has been compiled based on information provided to the RCVS. If you are aware of any additional funding opportunities, please send the details to [email protected].
For more information about the funding opportunities listed below, please contact the organisation or school directly.
On this page:
Subsistence and expenses grants
Specific veterinary school grants and opportunities
Government Veterinary Services (GVS) reimbursements
EMS bursaries
EMS events grants
Subsistence and expenses grants
- Worshipful Company of Farriers Equine Veterinary Studies Award
- Laboratory Animal Veterinary Association (LAVA) EMS Scheme
- BVA Overseas Travel Grant
- Harry Steele-Bodger Memorial Travel Scholarship
- BVEDS BAME student accommodation and travel grants
Student research grants
Specific veterinary school grants and opportunities
University of Edinburgh
The University of Edinburgh offers:
- 15 School Bursaries worth £500 each
- 5 Bellringer Bursaries worth £625 each
These bursaries are intended to financially support students who may otherwise be unable to carry out EMS placements. They can be used for any EMS in any country (including the UK). Both animal husbandry and clinical EMS are eligible. All Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery (BVM&S) years are eligible.
For further information, email Edinburgh University's EMS administrator at [email protected].
University of Glasgow
Thanks to their generous donors, the University of Glasgow offers a number of student funding opportunities for International EMS experiences.
In addition, the Jimmy Armour Support Fund provides an annual stipend to all of their widening participation students.
For further information, email the EMS team at [email protected].
Royal Veterinary College (RVC)
Government Veterinary Services (GVS) reimbursements
Food Standards Agency (FSA)
The FSA will reimburse travel, subsistence and accommodation costs for EMS placements, provided receipts comply with FSA policies.
- Mileage: 24.8p per mile.
- Accommodation in London (including breakfast and VAT): up to £145. Subsistence (24hr-rate): £25.
The Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra) / Animal and Plant Health Agency (APHA)
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Defra and APHA offer up to £300 to cover food, travel and accommodation for students participating in the one-week Vets in Government EMS placement in Weybridge. Receipts are required.