curriculum

The Veterinary Sciences phase of the program is delivered over four years. The first three years of the curriculum are delivered on the True Blue campus in Grenada, West Indies. The faculty includes full-time, part-time, and adjunct professors and instructors as well as visiting professors from other veterinary schools. In addition, clinical tutors and teaching assistants are available for additional tutoring.

During the first two years, students study the basic veterinary sciences. Instruction included didactic lectures, laboratory classes and small group sessions. Clinical skills are introduced in the second year, closely integrating coursework and demonstrating clinical application of basic science knowledge.

In year three, students proceed to the introductory stages of their clinical work, which involves both theoretical instruction and training in practical aspects of clinical examination, including sampling and more specialized techniques of pregnancy diagnosis, anesthesiology, and diagnostic imaging.

In addition to the horses, cattle, sheep, pigs and goats in St. George’s pastures, third-year veterinary science students have the opportunity to work alongside veterinary tutors at St. George’s Veterinary Teaching Hospital, providing unique clinical opportunities often not seen elsewhere until the fourth year of veterinary school.

The fourth year is 48 weeks of clinical training comprised of 22 weeks of instruction in seven core subjects and 24 weeks of electives that may be a continuation of core subjects or concentrations in select specialties. We are affiliated with 17 schools of veterinary medicine in the United States, four schools of veterinary medicine in the United Kingdom and schools in Canada and the Republic of Ireland, where St. George’s students spend their final clinical year alongside students enrolled in those institutions.

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