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What is the NAVLE?

The veterinary medicine programs featured by OzTREKK are AVMA accredited, which means graduates of these programs are eligible to sit the North American Veterinary Licensing Examination (NAVLE) along with graduates from AVMA accredited veterinary colleges in the United States and Canada.

After you’ve graduated from your AVMA-accredited veterinary program, you must register with the Canadian National Examining Board (NEB). The NEB reviews the credentials of graduates of non-Canadian colleges of veterinary medicine who wish to obtain a licence to practice veterinary medicine in Canada.

Write the NAVLE

The NAVLE is a requirement to enter into private veterinary medical practice in North America. The exam is offered throughout North America and certain overseas sites at computer testing centers operated by Prometric, and is available during a four-week testing window in November–December, and a two-week window in April.

You are strongly encouraged to wait until all clinical rotations have been completed before sitting the NAVLE. This usually means waiting until November – December as these are invaluable for providing the general clinical awareness and experience needed to pass the NAVLE.

Once you successfully complete the NAVLE, you will be granted a Certificate of Qualification (CQ). You must complete this exam within 2 attempts, otherwise an additional Clinical Proficiency Exam (CPE) is required.

The examination consists of 360 multiple-choice questions, answered on computer at a private testing center. Sixty of the items are unscored pretest items, but the identity of these items is not apparent, and they are dispersed throughout the test. Approximately 15% – 20% of the items on the NAVLE include graphic or pictorial information relevant to the item (photograph, radiograph, drawing, chart, etc.).  The 360 questions are divided by activity (e.g., data gathering and interpretation; health maintenance and problem management) and species (small animal/large animal/equine plus a small amount of public health).

All NAVLE items are relevant to entry-level private clinical practice.

There is a total of 6.5 hours test time (6 blocks of 65 minutes each)

A total of 45 minutes of break time can be taken during the day (including lunch)

The pass mark is 70%

Because of this large number of questions and the time constraints, being successful requires a sensible exam strategy and familiarity with the format (lots of practice tests!)

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Melbourne Veterinary School offers brand-new facilities

Melbourne Veterinary School‘s U-Vet Werribee Animal Hospital is one of Australia’s leading veterinary hospital facilities.

The new five-storey learning and teaching building improves the delivery of the university’s world-class veterinary education, and houses cutting-edge equipment and purpose-built spaces, including sitting areas open to the public and a new café.

Part of the redevelopment also included an upgrade to the U-Vet Animal Hospital, which provides world-class treatments for pets as well as the best possible hands-on clinical experience for Melbourne veterinary students.

The recently redeveloped veterinary teaching hospital at Werribee is complemented by brand-new teaching facilities, giving you access to the most modern veterinary facilities in Australasia, including specialist clinical skills laboratories, a new surgical teaching laboratory, extensive animal anatomy laboratories and a veterinary student-specific lounge, library and study areas.

New $100-million life sciences building

The upgrades don’t stop at the animal hospital. Facilities at Parkville also received a boost, including a new dissection room for anatomy classes, student collaboration and socialization spaces, and an open aspect to the historic and tranquil Systems Garden.

The University of Melbourne has opened a $100-million life sciences complex, offering Australia’s most sophisticated STEMM teaching laboratories and facilities and strengthening the global status of Melbourne’s biomedical precinct.

Stages of the Melbourne DVM

The primary aim of the Melbourne DVM curriculum is to graduate highly capable veterinary scientists whose abilities to solve problems, to draw on the substantial body of veterinary knowledge, to interpret evidence, and to make decisions and act upon them within a clear ethical and professional framework embody all of the graduate attributes to which the faculty aspires.

If you’ve applied to the University of Melbourne Veterinary School, or if you’ve received an offer, here’s what you can expect:

Years 1 & 2: Build solid foundations

Introduction to the scientific basis of animal health and disease with integrated studies in the following:

Veterinary bioscience and an integrated, systems-based study of anatomy, physiology, pathology and pharmacology of each organ system

Applications in animal health provides (determinants of disease in populations and in production animal systems)

Infections, populations and public health

Practical problem-solving and teamwork, including four hours per week of case-based group work

Year 3: Get career-focused, via Melbourne’s Tracks program

Commence your practical clinical training with an introduction to the principles of clinical practice and to species-based medicine and surgery. In addition to your general training, you can select a track in your chosen area of interest. You will have the opportunity to be involved in the extra practical classes and activities with classmates who share your interests.

Four tracks

Production Animal Track

Small Animal track

Government, Industry and Conservation Health Track

Equine Track

Year 4: A year of practice-based learning

Fourth year is also part of the Track program. It is a practical year, conducted under supervision in the University Veterinary Hospital and via external placements. This year includes a final, intensive one-week professional practice program, which consolidates knowledge in preparation for transition into the workforce.

Program: Doctor of Veterinary Medicine (DVM) Location: Melbourne, Victoria Semester intake: Late February/early March Duration: 4 years Application deadline: Candidates are encouraged to submit their applications as soon as possible.

Entry Requirements

Eligible Melbourne DVM applicants must

have completed an undergraduate science degree (minimum three-year degree); and

have completed prerequisite subjects including at least one semester of study in each of cell biology or general biology, and biochemistry.

submit a personal statement (i.e., description of their interest in veterinary science and related experiences with animals).

Acceptable undergraduate science degrees at Canadian universities include science degrees with majors in agriculture, animal science, biochemistry, biomedicine, physiology or zoology.

Stages of the Melbourne DVM

The primary aim of the Melbourne DVM curriculum is to graduate highly capable veterinary scientists whose abilities to solve problems, to draw on the substantial body of veterinary knowledge, to interpret evidence, and to make decisions and act upon them within a clear ethical and professional framework embody all of the graduate attributes to which the faculty aspires.

If you’ve applied to the University of Melbourne Veterinary School, or if you’ve received an offer, here’s what you can expect:

Years 1 & 2: Build solid foundations

Introduction to the scientific basis of animal health and disease with integrated studies in the following:

Veterinary bioscience and an integrated, systems-based study of anatomy, physiology, pathology and pharmacology of each organ system

Applications in animal health provides (determinants of disease in populations and in production animal systems)

Infections, populations and public health

Practical problem-solving and teamwork, including four hours per week of case-based group work

Year 3: Get career-focused, via Melbourne’s Tracks program

Commence your practical clinical training with an introduction to the principles of clinical practice and to species-based medicine and surgery. In addition to your general training, you can select a track in your chosen area of interest. You will have the opportunity to be involved in the extra practical classes and activities with classmates who share your interests.

What is the University of Melbourne Doctor of Veterinary Medicine Tracks program?

The University of Melbourne’s four-year, graduate-entry Doctor of Veterinary Medicine degree offers veterinary students the best possible preparation for twenty-first-century careers in a rapidly changing and increasingly global workforce. Students can expect to learn the latest theory and practice, with plenty of practical hands-on experience, taught by a team of leading veterinarians.

New Melbourne DVM students will take part in the university’s unique Tracks program. Tracks help prepare students for their chosen career path by concentrating their studies on a particular area of clinical interest and gaining complementary industry-ready skills and knowledge. This represents the latest international education models and enables you to stand out from the crowd upon graduation!

Melbourne Veterinary Hospital is teaching tomorrow’s vets

The Melbourne Veterinary Hospital is one of Australia’s leading veterinary hospital facilities, based in Werribee, Victoria and offers modern state-of-the-art facilities and services to clients and their pets.

The expert and caring team treat more than 17,000 animals per year, via the following services:

General practice (for primary and preventative care)

Referral practice (for veterinarians)

Emergency and critical care services open 24 hours, 365 days per year

Equine Centre

The veterinary hospital is fully computerised, so each pet has its own comprehensive lifelong medical record, ensuring that all veterinarians at the hospital will have full details of each animal’s illness, and a complete record of treatments received.

The University of Melbourne Veterinary Hospital has both medical and surgical specialists on site, and they are available to supervise and attend to the care of pets if appropriate.

The veterinary hospital also has fully operational radiology and anesthesia sections, which have the latest equipment and specialised staff. The hospital ensures that it has the latest types of equipment and procedures available to veterinary medicine and surgery. The Melbourne veterinarians and nurses regularly attend continuing education seminars and courses.

Most important, the Melbourne Veterinary Hospital is also a teaching hospital and research facility, where they are committed to educating the veterinarians of today and tomorrow, including Doctor of Veterinary Medicine students.

Melbourne Veterinary Hospital is teaching tomorrow’s vets

The Melbourne Veterinary Hospital is one of Australia’s leading veterinary hospital facilities, based in Werribee, Victoria and offers modern state-of-the-art facilities and services to clients and their pets.

The expert and caring team treat more than 17,000 animals per year, via the following services:

General practice (for primary and preventative care)

Referral practice (for veterinarians)

Emergency and critical care services open 24 hours, 365 days per year

Equine Centre

The veterinary hospital is fully computerised, so each pet has its own comprehensive lifelong medical record, ensuring that all veterinarians at the hospital will have full details of each animal’s illness, and a complete record of treatments received.

The University of Melbourne Veterinary Hospital has both medical and surgical specialists on site, and they are available to supervise and attend to the care of pets if appropriate.

The veterinary hospital also has fully operational radiology and anesthesia sections, which have the latest equipment and specialised staff. The hospital ensures that it has the latest types of equipment and procedures available to veterinary medicine and surgery. The Melbourne veterinarians and nurses regularly attend continuing education seminars and courses.

Animals in Society course at the University of Melbourne

Hosted by the Melbourne Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences, the very popular “Animals in Society” course is designed to encourage students to begin to think about how and why animals are so integral to human society.

During the program, students will investigate the human-animal relationships: where they originated, during domestication, and where they are now. The relationships between humans and animals, including animals as pets, in agriculture, as research subjects, in educational roles and as pests will also be examined. Students will also discuss the changing attitudes of humans towards animals throughout time and talk about humankind’s moral and ethical obligation to animal well-being. Within this discussion, animal welfare science will be looked at, as well as some of the current animal welfare issues in livestock industries around the world. Finally, students will examine the future and where the relationship between humans and animals may be headed.

This subject potentially can be taken as a breadth subject component for the following courses:

Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Biomedicine

Bachelor of Commerce

Bachelor of Environments

Bachelor of Music

Bachelor of Science

Bachelor of Engineering

Studying Veterinary Medicine at the University of Melbourne

For anyone who is considering making a life caring for animals, might we suggest studying veterinary medicine? The Melbourne DVM curriculum embraces the latest clinical technologies and evidenced-based practices. It has been developed around five learning domains, which infuse every subject and are based around the attributes of a veterinary scientist:

The scientific basis of clinical practice

Ethics and animal welfare

Biosecurity and population health

Clinical skills

Personal and professional development

Graduates of the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine are internationally accredited to work overseas. Graduates have the ability to solve problems, draw on the substantial body of veterinary knowledge, interpret evidence, and to make decisions within a solid professional and ethical framework.