For the development of training activities consisting of conferences, seminars, workshops, presentations, etc., the Veterinary Faculty of the UCM has different classrooms located both in specific buildings (classrooms A and B) and in the Departments, as well as in the Complutense Veterinary Clinical Hospital and the Teaching Farm. All classrooms have audiovisual and computer resources, public address systems, projection and video projection. Practically all of them are equipped with ramps and/or lifting platforms to allow access to people with disabilities.

The Faculty has two seminar rooms with a capacity for 25-30 people each, and three computer rooms, with 40 seats in total, which can be used both for training activities and for the consultation and use of the means and computer programs available to students. The computer rooms, as well as all the computer equipment in the classrooms and the rest of the Faculty’s facilities, are supervised by specialized staff and are managed in coordination by the Dean's Office and the Management Office of the Faculty.

The Veterinary Faculty also has an Assembly Hall, a Graduation Room and a Faulty Council Meeting Room. All of them are suitable for giving conferences and seminars and for defending doctoral theses. The presentation of the compulsory seminars took place in the Graduation Room. For group meetings, there is a Teachers' Room and a small meeting room, with capacity for 10-20 people.

To carry out research, all the Departments and research groups participating in the PhD Program have specific laboratories equipped with the necessary equipment and material in each of the lines that make up the PhD Program. The resources for the development of the projects come mostly from funds raised in competitive public calls and from agreements with institutions and companies.

The Veterinary Faculty of has signed agreements with the CSIC, the Carlos III Health Institute and INIA, among other bodies, for different activities, including the completion of doctoral theses. The laboratories and services of these centers are also perfectly equipped for research and are accessible to disabled people.

The PhD students will also have other facilities located in the Faculty, such as the Veterinary Clinical Hospital, the Animal Facilities, the Teaching Farm, the Food Technology Pilot Plant and the Complutense Veterinary Museum.

The Teaching Farm of the Veterinary Faculty has a total area of 18,000 m2, and has three enclosures for large animals, two enclosures for small ruminants and other species, a poultry unit, a rabbit unit, and a bee unit.

The Animal Facilities of the Veterinary Faculty supply experimental animals to carry out research projects whose procedures are authorized by the Animal Experimentation Commission (CEA) of the UCM. The design of the facilities and the handling of the animals scrupulously comply with all the standards, recommendations and requirements established by the current European, national and Autonomous Community of Madrid legislation on Animal Protection and Welfare and are subject to the corresponding regulations of the Ministry of Agriculture, Food and the Environment.

The Complutense Veterinary Clinical Hospital (HCVC) is located in a building of 8,000 m2, of which 5,000 m2 of surface area are dedicated to clinical activity. It has different consultation rooms, operating rooms, radiology rooms, ultrasound and hospitalization areas, as well as necropsy rooms, for small and large animals, as well as the necessary clinical and support services. It has two seminars with a capacity for 60 and 20 people and four rooms for small group meetings (5-10 people).

The Food Technology Pilot Plant, with an area of 209 m2, is equipped with the necessary equipment for the production lines of food products, mainly of animal origin, on a small scale, which may be necessary for the conduct of research in the field of Technology, Hygiene and Food Safety. It has two auxiliary laboratories, equipped to carry out physical-chemical and microbiological analyses.

The Complutense Veterinary Museum is located in the facilities of the Veterinary Faculty and the Veterinary Clinical Hospital. With more than 3,000 pieces, it houses one of the most valuable collections from a veterinary point of view and of great interest for research in the field of the history of science. Its collections allow us to see the evolution of Veterinary as a science and profession, its activities, contributions and areas of work, both in the animal clinic, as well as in production, food inspection and the environment.

The Veterinary Faculty has a library accessible to disabled people, which has 35,701 books and 2,020 journal titles, 8,600 free access copies, 140 subscriptions to specialized journals on paper and 32 in electronic format, as well as more than 4,000 copies of printed matter and manuscripts from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries and numerous electronic books. It has about 200 reading stations, 23 computers and a video library. It also has 2 study rooms for 9 people, where students can prepare work and carry out other collective training activities. Subscribed journals cover most of the fields necessary for training and research in the PhD Program. The Library has highly specialized staff in the management of collections and bibliographic resources and offers a research support service, as well as free courses on bibliographic resource management, electronic journals, databases, and more. Globally, the UCM has one of the largest European bibliographic collections in the field of Veterinary Sciences. https://biblioteca.ucm.es/vet

It should also be noted that the Veterinary Faculty has a Scientific Dissemination Unit (UdcVet) whose objective is to promote the dissemination of basic and applied research as an integration of the main areas of knowledge assigned to the various fields of Veterinary Sciences.

The PhD Program in Veterinary Sciences will also use the UCM Virtual Campus to create and maintain training and research seminars and other academic-administrative spaces, for student management, communication (forums, mail, talk, announcements, agenda), organization of content and sending, receiving and evaluating reports, presentations and results of other training activities. In all the areas of common use, the Veterinary Faculty has a Wi-Fi network to which students can connect with their laptops and access all the resources.

Finally, the Veterinary Faculty has the Professional Guidance Office of the Official College of Veterinarians of Madrid in its facilities, which all students can contact in person or contact by phone or email. Through this office, students of the program will be able to obtain advice on the labor market, incorporation into job exchanges, contacts with companies, specific training courses, etc.

 

Other resources

The different research groups participating in the programme have various specific equipment for the development of research, including electrophoresis systems, MALDI-TOF-TOF equipment, flow cytometer, isoelectrofocus equipment, tasting rooms, light pulse equipment for the treatment of food samples, freeze-dryers, fermenters, thermal cyclers, etc.  stereo microscopes, video endoscopy equipment, gas chromatographs, HPLC, etc. Some research groups also include reference laboratories in disease surveillance and laboratories to support companies. The PhD Program also has the support of the Research Assistance Centres (C.A.I.) of the UCM, such as Electron Microscopy, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and Electron Spin, Cytometry and Fluorescence Microscopy, etc.

Research funding and mobility

The funds necessary for the development of research come mainly from R+D+i projects subsidized in competitive public calls and from agreements with institutions and companies. At the same time, the UCM has its own program of scholarships and pre-doctoral contracts for the completion of the thesis.

Link to the different calls for project funding

For attendance at conferences, travel grants and for the realization of stays of doctoral students abroad, there are funds from R+D+i projects, as well as specific calls for mobility grants associated with research staff training grants.

Link to the different mobility funding calls