 Good morning everybody, my name is Rebecca and this is the lovely Emeka and we're from the School of Animal and Veterinary Sciences. Put your hand up if you know where Roseworthy is. More than I thought, well done. So we're from Roseworthy Campus which is an hours drive north from here and I'm going to give you a bit of a spiel about Roseworthy Campus, the programs we offer and then what careers you can get by taking either animal or veterinary sciences. If you have any questions feel free to come and speak to myself or Emeka after the talk or alternatively please head towards the marquee and speak to our lovely helpers and there and there's a few activities for you to do but we can definitely field any questions you may have about the program or the admissions process. So Roseworthy Campus, we've got a bit of history surrounding it. The college, it was originally an agricultural college which was established in 1883 so it was the first agricultural college in Australia and graduates that had agricultural degree from Roseworthy were highly renowned, it was an internationally well-renowned degree. In the 1970s the university took it over and then it became the University of Adelaide's Roseworthy campus and at the time we had the one degree there but that since moved to Wait. So now we're solely animal and veterinary science out at Roseworthy. It's a 1600 high-care commercial farm, representative of a Mediterranean agriculture. As I said before it's got a high level recognition both nationally and internationally and on campus because we are now a vet school we have 24-hour companion or state-of-the-art companion animal health center. So for smallies as well as our largee so our equine health center or equine clinic, our production animal clinic, we also have a research piggery, a research poultry unit and also areas to do research on sheep, beef cattle, aquaculture and as well as forney yards to do some wildlife work as well. So we're quite a large campus which can do a lot of diverse research on a wide variety of species so it's actually a really cool place to work. It's also a really beautiful campus. It is slightly isolated but that's what makes it nice about it. There's trees and birds and the students are right around on bicycles and it's just a really nice environment. It is a residential college so a lot of our students live on campus so it's got a really good vibe to it. So when you come into the main gate you'll see the beautiful admin building so this is the oldest part of Roseworthy which has just been restored so it's heritage listed. So if you don't see this building when you come on campus I don't know where you are but you can't miss it and there's the three flags out the front. So it is a residential facility for around 150 students hoping to expand on that because we've got more students coming in through the animal science program and as we've now diversified our veterinary science degree because it is a residential campus we have a gym, we have a swimming pool, actually we don't have a tavern, we converted the tavern to the gym which I think is a more healthy option. We have a refractory, we can buy food which helps, lecture theatres, teaching labs, research labs, recreational areas so we have tennis courts, basketball courts, soccer pitch, football pitch. We have the student hub which is being developed at the moment and also a library so we're quite self-sufficient out at Roseworthy. We also have co-located partners because we are rural campus and our programs focus on primarily production animals. We have Sadi which is the South Australian Research Development Institute, so we have the livestock system alliance so they're government entities that work in the area of livestock research. We have the pork CRC which is based out at Roseworthy that works in all aspects of pig research and also Australian technology. So the school of animal and veterinary science, we're quite a new school so we're established in 2008 so the animal science degree has been going since 2004 when we were in the school of agriculture food and wine for a while and then we got the vet school so then animal science joined with veterinary science and now we're the school of animal and veterinary science so that was in 2008. So we've got approximately 650 students in the school and over 100 staff and this includes academic and support staff and the good thing about this was that it reinvigorated the campus and is becoming the major animal and veterinary research and clinical centres for the state. So all of our new clinics are state of the art and offer high quality service in terms of surgery and pathology and diagnostics. So we offer three programs so we offer the Bachelor of Science Animal Science, the Bachelor of Science Veterinary Bioscience and then that undergraduate degree leads into the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. So the entire veterinary program for you to become a qualified veterinarian is six years. You do all your clinical training in the DVM or the Doctor of Veterinary Medicine. So this is a lovely picture of our 24 hour, I'm just plugging our clinic, it's 24 hours emergency clinic. It is out at Roseworthy but again you have access to excellent surgeons and excellent care. So 24 hours a day. So if your animal happens to fall sick at three o'clock in the morning, we'll be there to help you out. Okay, so that's our clinic. So what's the difference between the two degrees? So animal science is a study of the biology of animals with a focus on vertebrates, particularly mammals, but we can't forget chickens because they're awesome. Okay, I work with chickens. Okay, and their function. So the animal science program is a beautiful program because it's so diverse and encompasses a lot of disciplines as well as a lot of species. So physiology, nutrition, microbiology, health, behavior, welfare, ethics, handling, husbandry, microbiology, all molecular biology genetics in wildlife, equine, companion animals, production animals, so pigs, poultry, beef, sheep. Okay, so and wildlife. We do wildlife subjects as well. So it's a beautiful program. Now the veterinary science program deals with the application of medical, diagnostic and therapeutic principles to companion animals, wildlife and livestock animals as well as equine. Okay, so that's your clinical training. Okay, so if you want to become a veterinarian or you want to get into the veterinarian realm, then the veterinary science program is for you. If you're just interested in how animals work and you just love science and you love the animal science part of it, then the animal science program is for you. Okay, so and both of them do overlap, especially in undergraduate, it's just in the DVM when you go into your clinical training. So they're much, so the two undergraduates are much of a much of a muchness. Whoops. Okay, so the Bachelor of Science, Animal Science is three years, with the option of doing a one year honours year after that three years, which we recommend our students doing because it makes them more employable by running their own research project. And it's a great year to kind of step out, step away from that sitting in lecture theatres, sitting exam type of study. So the 2016 AITAR was 68.75. There are no prerequisites, but there is assumed knowledge of chemistry and maths studies. I would also recommend if you can to take biology, because when you get to first year in university, that transition from U-12 to university can be a bit of a slap in the face if you don't have that biology background. So if you have the option of still taking biology, then please do. It's not necessary, but that's just my personal experience. This is basically a beautiful pathway for further graduate and postgraduate studies. So a lot of our students will do honours and they may go out to the workforce or they go on to do a PhD and become research scientists. That's just what I did. The Bachelor of Science, Veterinary Bioscience is also three years, but there are prerequisites. You must have chemistry and you must have maths studies. There is an assumed knowledge of physics. Other veterinary science programs interstate require physics as a prerequisite. So if you're applying for other programs, make sure you've got that one. But come here, it's good. So the ATAR threshold is 90 for U-12s or a GPA threshold for people that have done some previous university study is around five. So with this ATAR threshold, you also need to do a questionnaire, which comes through applying through SATAC. And then depending on how well you do in your questionnaire, you'll get invited to a multiple-minute interview, which is station-based. You were then ranked on your ATAR and your interview score, which is a 50-50 balance, and offers basically are given to the highest-ranking applicants. We usually only take 50 or 60 now. Good for you. So 60 students, 10 more than 60 students. So it is highly competitive. So the veterinary science program only takes 60. Tertiary transfer students, if you've got animal science or a related degree, a credit average for chemistry, one on biology, one courses may apply. So if you don't get into veterinary science from year 12, you can do a year of university study and then try and apply for the next year. But in saying that it is highly competitive and it does vary from year to year, how many places may be available is not a guaranteed transfer. So in one year, there might be five places available. In another year, there might be one. In another year, there might be none. Okay? So again, once you're in, it doesn't guarantee you entry. So keep working at it. If that's what you want to do. I've had students who've done honours or even masters and then transferred back into second year veterinary bioscience to continue their studies. So they end up doing 12 years of study. But if you want it that badly, it is a possibility. Okay? And some students really want it that badly. That's how competitive it is. So again, whenever you transfer, regardless of how many years of university study you've done, you always go into second year veterinary bioscience. Okay? As long as you can get credit for that first year. The Doctor of Veterinary Medicine is a three-year clinical postgraduate degree. The entry is by successful completion of the veterinary bioscience program, as well as completion of 12 weeks of animal husbandry extramural study. So you have to do placement in addition to the veterinary science or the veterinary bioscience program, so 12 weeks. Okay? So once you've done that 12-week component, as well as done well in your veterinary bioscience degree, a GPA of four, you need a minimum, then you can move into the DVM program. Okay? So again, just because you're a veterinary bioscience doesn't mean that you have direct entry into DVM. You still have to meet requirements and academic standards. So the veterinary profession in 2016, just to give you a few stats. So there's approximately 9,000 vets registered in Australia and approximately over 500 in South Australia. 60% of new graduates start and mix the large animal practice. That's where the demand is. Alright? So if you're interested in playing with kittens and puppies, you might want to reconsider your career choice because most of the jobs are in that rural base, sort of large animal type of field. And 40% go into small animal practice. Basically the general move towards city-based practices over the next five years, I guess, as the urban sprawl increases, they're going to have more houses. More houses means more pets for more vet clinics are necessary. So that might, you might get a greater chance of smallies later on. There's equal numbers of women and men in practice, but majority of veterinary students are female, especially animal science students. I usually have majority of female and five boys. So come on boys, let's do this degree because you're outnumbered, always outnumbered. I always remember the boys first because there's always five. I don't know why, like one, two, three, yep that's my boy lot, but most of them are chicks. So if you're a boy, it's pretty good. Alright. So animal science, again, in terms of animal and veterinary science careers, the management of animal breeding, feeding and care, and veterinary science is animal medicine. So there's an enormous variety of careers from both degrees, and there's hugely different types of career paths from both degrees. Just because you do veterinary science doesn't mean that you're going to do nudas and spas in a vet clinic for the rest of your life. You got to think outside the box a bit. The same goes for animal science. Yes, you come out of it, what do I get, or you become an animal scientist, but that could be anything. So you have to think outside the box. You have to be willing to go in to stay, willing to go like up north somewhere, maybe even go overseas to get your job. It depends what you want to do. Work out what your passion is, and then work out a path to that. But keep your options open. If you stay too focused, I just want to work in Adelaide, that's probably not going to be the best career path for you, especially in this field. So the careers can range from small business management to senior government or academic positions. So these degrees, again, basically open up brand new doors. So the world is your oyster pretty much with these programs. Oh look, that's a nice picture. I need to be looking at a cow. All right, so careers as a veterinarian. So obviously you just think of the veterinarian that you take your dog and cat to or your parrot if you have one or a fish. Goldfish can come too. So small animal, large animal mixed practice zoo animals. And then you can go on if you want to and do further specialization. So you can sit board exams to become a veterinary surgeon or a veterinary pathologist or an aquaculture specialist. So you can actually go on and do further studies and internships and placements to expand or become a specialist in an area. So aquaculture equine or an equine surgeon or just a surgeon or pathologist, as I've just said. Or you can become a government veterinarian. So you can work for aqueous in the field of biosecurity in terms of, you know, border protection as well as working in public health and safety and food supply, which is super important. And we talk about veterinary science these days as a one health type of thing where we put human medicine and veterinary medicine together. It's called zoonosis. So the transfer of infectious diseases from animal to human and vice versa. Because that's going, that's, and that's pretty much what public health is. So you can work in that arena. And then of course in universities, a lot of the academics that we'll lecture to you are veterinarians that have then gone and to do a PhD and can now teach you. So they're in research or hospitals and clinics as well as teaching. So as I said before, we talk about veterinary science or veterinary medicine as one medicine, one health. So we consider veterinary profession as the guardians of all animals and their environment as they impact on human health. Okay, so the safety of food supply and the protection against bioterrorism, zoonotic disease control through effective animal management. So hendrovirus bats through horses to humans. Okay, so that's kind of that realm. So you see it in the news all the time. Salmonella outbreaks that needs to be controlled and managed at the farm level with the flock. Okay, so companion animal health as it relates to human health benefits, protection of wildlife and its environment to enhance our shared environments, advocate for animal welfare, very important and animal models for human disease. Okay, and without those and without stringent animal ethics associated with that then we can improve human health as well. So careers in animal science. So if you're interested in large animals or livestock or production animals, we have our graduates in a vast range of careers from animal health offices, biosecurity offices, to research, to technicians, as commercial nutritionists in terms of reproduction and sort of a reproductive technology such as AI or IVF. And basically a lot of our graduates graduates go into the dairy industry or the pork industry and become management of particular farms and enterprises. So all production systems. So ingams and biota for poultry, we've got a lot of our graduates working there as well. Okay, so managing flocks. So if we look at non-lifestock animals, so we've got a lot of our graduates work for the Royal Society of the Blind and Training Guide Dogs or Assistant Dogs. So post-traumatic stressor dogs that have got behaviors specific for more as a companion animal to assist with alleviating this post-traumatic stress or the dogs that have more of a behavior suited for guide dogs. Okay, so those programs, so behavior and training, we do have a lot of our graduates get into that. They go on to do grad-dip eds and become teachers in a variety of high schools, laboratory technicians, research offices. We've got a couple of our graduates out at Cleveland Wildlife Park, so National Park Rangers and in zoos, some at Monato. Animal Welfare Advisers. We've got people that sit on local councils and look at dog parks and dogs on beaches and do surveys, the prevalence of dog attacks, which we have a lovely poster and our marquee about as well. So you know, it's so diverse and pharmaceutical reps and as well as journalists. So some of our students go on to do further science communication degrees and then they come out and interview us. So I'm like, I taught you. All right, so you know, again, a degree in animal or veterinary science, smartly took career outside the square. So keep your options open, come into it just going, I love science, I love learning, let's just see what happens. Okay, because I love animals, so we'll just see what I get at the end. But if you've got your heart set on something then definitely strive for that and we'll try and accommodate that as best as we can. So more information, definitely come to the SAVS area in the tent just next door to the Braggs here on the maths lawns. Come and take our virtual tour, just put the headphones on and there's three little videos you can click about our campus, our teaching facilities and our clinics. And then if you're further interested we do offer information sessions out at Roseworthy campus in September. So definitely use the link, we've got a pamphlet that you can take home on our stands which has the link to register for those. So that's where we are. So we'd basically right next door to this lecture theatre, so just come find us. All right, and if you have any questions come and see Emeka and I now or you can wait until you get to the tent. So thanks everyone, hope to see you next year in the future.