(Statutes and Ordinances, p. 505)
The regulations have been amended following the decision by the Faculty Board of Veterinary Medicine (i) to revise the arrangements for granting exemption to pre-clinical students from subjects in the Second Vet.M.B. Examination, and (ii) to set out new procedures relating to the requirements of students taking re-sit examinations.
Regulation 9.
By amending the regulation so as to read:
9. A candidate for the Second Vet.M.B. Examination shall be required to have diligently attended approved courses of instruction appropriate to the subject or subjects to be offered in the examination. Approved courses recognized for this purpose shall be listed in the Schedule to these regulations; the Faculty Board shall have power to amend this Schedule from time to time as they think fit. The Faculty Board shall have authority to approve for this purpose additional courses offered by a university other than Cambridge, or, in exceptional circumstances, to waive the requirement.
The Second Vet.M.B. Examination may be taken by an unmatriculated student who has satisfied this requirement and who is certified on behalf of a College to the Registrary to be a bona fide candidate for admission to the College.
Regulation 10.
By deleting this regulation, renumbering subsequent regulations, and amending any cross-references accordingly.
Regulation 11 (renumbered 10).
By amending the regulation so as to read:
10. (a) The Faculty Board shall have power to grant exemption from any subject or subjects of the Second Vet.M.B. Examination to a candidate for admission as a veterinary student from a university other than Cambridge, provided that the student has satisfied the conditions of Regulation 9 and has attained a satisfactory standard, as prescribed by the Faculty Board, in corresponding subjects taken in an examination for a degree of a university other than Cambridge.
(b) The Faculty Board shall inform the Registrary as early as possible of the names of those candidates who have been granted exemption from any subject or subjects of the Second Vet.M.B. Examination and who have satisfied the requirements in Regulation 10(a). The Registrary shall thereupon post a list of the names outside the Senate-House.
Regulation 12 (renumbered 11).
By deleting sub-paragraph (b).
Regulation 15 (renumbered 14).
By amending the regulation so as to read:
14. Before taking the examination in any subject of Part I, a student must have
| (a) | completed the Second Veterinary M.B. Examination by having passed all the subjects thereof, |
| (b) | obtained a degree deemed appropriate by the Faculty Board, which shall be a degree of this University if the student has undertaken preclinical veterinary study in the University, and which may otherwise be a degree of a university other than Cambridge, and |
| (c) | produced evidence of having, since the date of his or her matriculation, satisfactorily carried out twelve weeks of extra-mural studies in a form prescribed by the Faculty Board of Veterinary Medicine. A student may exceptionally apply, through his or her College, to the Faculty Board of Veterinary Medicine for permission to carry out these extra-mural studies while he or she is a candidate for Part I of the Final Veterinary Examination. No student may be a candidate for Part II of the Final Veterinary Examination until he or she has satisfactorily completed these extra-mural studies. |
Subject to the provisions of Regulation 19(b) and (c), candidates who fail to satisfy the Examiners in any subject of Part I may present themselves for re-examination, under arrangements approved by the Faculty Board.
Regulation 18 (renumbered 17).
By replacing the first sentence of the regulation by the following two sentences:
Part III of the Final Veterinary Examination shall be held twice a year beginning on the Friday that next precedes the last day of Full Easter Term and on the Monday next preceding the first day of the Michaelmas Term. All candidates shall make their first attempt at the examination in the Easter Term provided that, in exceptional circumstances and for good cause, the Faculty Board may permit a candidate to defer taking the examination until the following September.
By replacing the third sentence in the last paragraph by the following sentence:
Subject to the provisions of Regulation 19(b) and (c), candidates who fail to satisfy the Examiners in any subject of Part III may present themselves for re-examination, under arrangements approved by the Faculty Board, in September beginning on the Monday next preceding the first day of the Michaelmas Term.
The Schedule has been rescinded and replaced by a new Schedule entitled 'Approved courses of instruction for the Second Vet.M.B. Examination' so as to read:
In addition to the courses offered as specific preparation for the subjects for the Second Vet.M.B. Examination, the following courses have been approved by the Faculty Board of Veterinary Medicine as appropriate courses of instruction for certain subjects of the Second Vet.M.B. Examination.
| Subjects in the Second Vet.M.B. Examination | Subject in Tripos Examinations | |
| Biology of Disease | NST IB Pathology | |
| or | NST II Pathology | |
| Mechanisms of Drug Action | NST IB Pharmacology | |
| or | NST II Pharmacology | |
| Molecules in Medical Science | NST IB Biochemistry and Molecular Biology | |
| or | NST II Biochemistry | |
| Homeostasis | NST IA Physiology of Organisms | |
| and | NST IB Physiology |