Veterinary Exchange Students

SLU is the only university in Sweden that educates veterinarians. The programme is 5.5 years long and is taught in Swedish.

During the first three years the programme is focused on preclinical courses. During the autumn semester of the fourth year students attend a clinical preparation course and during the following spring semester they have clinical courses. In their final year, students have elective courses and write a thesis.

At SLU, veterinary exchange students can attend the veterinary courses in both English and Swedish, and/or participate in the clinical courses.

If you wish to attend veterinary courses in Swedish you must be from Norway or Denmark, or be able to show that you have a Swedish language level equivalent of Swedish studies at upper secondary school level in Sweden (known as Swedish course B). You find information about SLU's veterinary courses here.

The clinical courses that may be of interest for non-Swedish speaking exchange students are:

• Ambulatory clinic (large animals), variable time, possible during summer
• Small animal medicine & surgery, 8 weeks
• Horse medicine & surgery, 5 weeks
• Ruminant medicine, 3 weeks, during autumns
• Pig medicine, 2 weeks
• Reproduction, 3 weeks
• Image diagnostics (former radiology), 2 weeks, starting in spring 2012

If you want to participate as an exchange student in a clinical course you need to be at least in your fourth year of a veterinary programme and have passed the preclinical courses and clinic preparation courses. The clinical preparation course at SLU is 30 ECTS credits and has a theoretical coverage of the common diseases and treatments of cattle, horses, sheep, dogs, cats & pigs, clinical chemistry, practical obstetrics, hygiene and prevention of infection, general surgical principles including pre-operative scrub-up and standard operating procedures for the operating theater. You need to have studied something similar.