Educational Memorial Programme
Donate your pet's body to the School of Veterinary Medicine and Biosciences and help train future vets and vet nurses.
Donating your pet’s body to SRUC’s School of Veterinary Medicine and Biosciences
Leaving your beloved pet’s body to the SRUC School of Veterinary Medicine and Bioscienes is an extraordinarily generous decision and this information leaflet should help you decide whether it is right for you.
SRUC’s School of Veterinary Medicine and Biosciences is devoted to training vets and veterinary nurses of the future. We aim to produce practitioners of the highest standard, and you and your pet can play a key role in this.
This programme has been approved by the SRUC Ethics Committee BOR 2024-001 MIX
Other ways to get involved:
Share your experience
If you have experience in the veterinary sector or relevant animal-related industry, please consider sharing it and helping the next generation of vets, nurses and technicians.
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Partner with us
As part of our distributed learning model and ensure that our veterinary students are adequately prepared for the demands of the profession, final year rotations on our BVSci course are delivered entirely in workplace settings. We are actively looking for partner practices across all sectors to help deliver this critical element to our students' learning.
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VCAW placement
Provide paid or unpaid placement and supervision for a Veterinary Care and Animal Welfare student.
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Make a donation
Make a financial donation to the first vet school in Scotland in 150 years
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