Teaching Facilities
Learning is more effective and efficient when it’s supported by the right technology. This is particularly true when it comes to educating veterinarians who must learn to make judgments based on skilled observation of visual clues. At Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, you’ll have the benefit of exceptional teaching and laboratory facilities designed with extensive multi-media capabilities.
Pre-clinical training is conducted at the University’s main campus in St. Kitts.
Built on a multi-level site, the campus features high-tech classrooms, highly developed small and large animal surgery suites, and a hands-on gross anatomy lab equipped with progressive multimedia technology, closed-circuit cameras, and display monitors.
Campus facilities include:
- Two auditoriums -- seating approximately 150 students each
- Learning Resource Center
- Patient examination rooms with A/V links to classrooms
- Nearly 200 computer stations throughout the academic buildings
- Wireless capability on-campus
- Veterinary Medical Library and reading rooms
- Diagnostic Imaging and Pathology labs
- Multi-disciplinary laboratory
- Interactive small group study rooms
- Community Practice
- Necropsy facility
- Extensive large animal paddock and kennels, with over 150 animals
- 30 acres of pasture land
- Museum of anatomical specimens
- Bookstore
- Food service vendors
- Student Union
All classrooms and laboratories are equipped with a multitude of high-resolution monitors connected to state-of-the-art audiovisual equipment, computers, and laser disc and videotape players that are utilized by the faculty to enhance the teaching experience. Classroom computers are linked to a Learning Resource Center (LRC) so that educational software can be accessed for teaching purposes.
Additional standard features for all new classrooms include large rear projection video display systems with additional plasma screen monitors offering a clear view of the teaching material for each seat in the classroom. Teleconferencing systems provide learning opportunities to students both on and off campus and total wireless network access throughout the campus allows for maximum connectivity for all students.
