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MVS Faculty Support Staff Conference 26th
September 2007 Len Hall Dean of Medical
Veterinary Sciences
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• Background to the Faculty
• Teaching Learning
• Research
• Capital Investment
• Financial Status

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University Income - 2006/07
3,195
1,227
2,153
Total 272.6M
3,522
2,025
3,473
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University Expenditure - 2006/07
Total 272.6M
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MVS Departmental Budget Data - 2006/07
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MVS Departmental Budget Data - 2006/07
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School of Medical Sciences
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School of Clinical Veterinary Science
Langford House
View from the Tower
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Teaching Learning
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Teaching Learning

• In the 2005 National Student Survey, Bristol was
  voted as having the best Veterinary School in the
  UK.

• In the 2006 National Student Survey, Bristol was
  voted as having the best Medical Sciences
  Teaching in the UK.

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Priorities for Teaching and Learning

• Increasing integration of the facilities provided
  by the Applied and Integrated Medical Sciences
  CETL into our BSc Honours and professional
  programmes
• Increase in number and funding level of
  Postgraduate Research (PhD) students
• Redevelopment of Medical Sciences Library space
• - LifeZone - a Life Sciences Learning Zone

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AIMS CETL (Applied and Integrated Medical
Sciences Centre for Excellence in Teaching
Learning)

• A purpose-built Clinical Anatomy Suite housing
  integrated work-stations and a large pathology
  display area for clinical anatomy teaching.
• Two life-sized, computer-controlled, Human
  Patient Simulators (manikins) for physiology
  pharmacology teaching.
• A web-based Virtual Microscope that will enable
  students to access hundreds of digital images of
  our existing tissue sections both on- and
  off-campus for histology teaching.
• A Mobile Laboratory to facilitate outreach
  activities.

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AIMS CETL (Applied and Integrated Medical
Sciences Centre for Excellence in Teaching
Learning)

• Will provide teaching facilities for
• 1,500 Bristol undergraduates per year including
  medical students, dental students, veterinary
  students and medical science students
• Outreach activities with local schools
• Postgraduate health professionals
• Students from other HEIs (e.g. medical and
  nursing students)

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Clinical Anatomy Suite

• Twelve custom-designed, integrated work-
• stations giving students access to
• Models of anatomical structures
• Donated human tissue
• Pathological specimens
• X-rays, CT scans, MRI images accessed via a
  touch-screen monitor

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Clinical Anatomy Suite - an integrated palette of
resources
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Human Patient Simulator
Waveform traces (ECG Blood pressure O2 and CO2
content of blood)
Audible heart beat breathing
Pupil reflexes
Palpable pulses
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Student Feedback
Data from 475 first year undergraduates (medical
students, dental students, vet students and
medical science students)
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Virtual Microscope

• Students can access the web-based image archive
  at any time and from anywhere in the world
• Gives all students and staff access to exactly
  the same image
• Split-screen facility enables comparison between
  images
• Rare and fragile tissue can be digitally
  archived

Second year dental students using the virtual
microscope
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Mobile Laboratory
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Severn Postgraduate School for Surgery Dillington
House, Somerset
Crypt School, Gloucester
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Research
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Major research themes within the Faculty include

• Cardiovascular Science
• Professor Julian Paton (Physiology
  Pharmacology)
• Neuroscience
• Professor David Nutt (Community-Based Medicine)
• Cell Biology
• Professor Pete Cullen (Biochemistry) Professor
  Alastair Poole (Phys Pharm)
• Animal Welfare Behaviour
• Professor Christine Nicol (Clinical Veterinary
  Sciences)
• Infection Immunology
• Professor Stuart Siddell (Cellular Molecular
  Medicine)
• Mechanistic Structural Biochemistry
• Professor Paula Booth (Biochemistry)
• In each of these major thematic areas of
  research, grant income to this Faculty is
  currently about 2.5M to 3M p.a.

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Cell Imaging Facility

• Since its establishment in 1997, this Facility
  has established a reputation for being at the
  forefront of cutting-edge imaging technologies.
• It is used by about 140 research groups from
  across the Faculties of Medical Veterinary
  Sciences, Medicine Dentistry, and Science.

• It has just been awarded 1 million from the
  Wolfson Foundation and a further 350K from the
  MRC.
• This, together with a 1 million investment from
  the University, will allow it to purchase
  state-of-the-art microscopes and imaging
  equipment, fundamental to much of the biomedical
  research carried out in Bristol.

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Images taken by the Cell Imaging Facility are
often published on the covers of prestigious
journals
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Priorities for Research

• Increase research volume and funding
• Acquire more space for an expansion of some of
  our major research themes in Medical Sciences

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Capital Investment
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Capital Projects

• Recently Completed Capital Projects
• Facilities for Proteomics and Transgenics
  (SRIF-1)
• Refurbishment of Labs for Functional Genomics
  (SRIF-2)
• Small Animal Practice Building
• Pearson Building several Langford
  refurbishments
• Refurbishment of Animal Facilities - H-floor
  (SRIF-2)
• Medical Sciences Foyer
• Ongoing Capital Projects
• Animal Welfare Building
• Redevelopment of Wyndhurst Farm
• Enhancement of Cell Imaging Facility
• Future, Approved Capital Projects
• Equine Surgery Building
• LifeZone - redevelopment of Medical School
  Library
• Future, Planned Capital Projects
• Langford Clinical Veterinary Services (LCVS)
• Additional Laboratories for Medical Sciences

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Small Animal Practice
Small Animal Hospital
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Laboratories
Computer Suite
Hodgkin Lecture Theatre
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LifeZone
LifeZone will be an exemplar for a new style
of library, more focussed on modern student and
academic needs and reflecting significant changes
in the nature of the information available to
biomedical scientists. We intend that it will be
a beacon, setting the standard for similar
initiatives across all of our libraries.

• The project has been approved at a cost of 1.75
  million, with 350K from the Wolfson Foundation
  and 1.4 million from the University.
• The project will also provide high quality
  refreshment facilities for staff and students.
• The work is planned to occur over the summer of
  2008.

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Langford Clinical Veterinary Services (LCVS)

• To provide the clinical caseload needed to teach
  veterinary undergraduates
• To provide the case material for clinical
  research
• To provide additional income for the School

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Threats to the sustainability of our clinics

• Need for investment in facilities and equipment
• Difficulty in attracting retaining highly
  qualified, experienced clinical academic staff
• Falling caseload due to increased competition
  (especially referral cases)
• Lack of commercial- or customer-focussed approach
  in running the clinics
• Potential threat to the referral clinics from
  emerging chains of first opinion practices

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University response to these threats

• Establish Langford Clinics as a limited company
  wholly owned by the University
• Focus on running the clinics as a business within
  the framework of a robust Service Level Agreement
  to protect teaching and research
• Adopt a more commercial management approach in
  order to match competitors
• Provide a more client-focussed service
• Provide incentives, both vocational and
  financial, for clinical staff to come to Langford
  and stay
• Provide investment in clinical facilities,
  equipment and systems - thereby ensuring that we
  have the best facilities and services
• Create links to local first opinion practices to
  increase referrals, laboratory business and
  student placements

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Financial Status
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MVS Student Income
03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08 08/09 09/10 HEFCE
Income 10.2M 11.7M 13.3M 14.1M 14.1M 14.3M
14.7M Fee Income 4.3M 4.5M 5.1M 6.5M 7.3M 8
.4M 9.1M Total T income 14.5M 16.2M 18.4M 20.
6M 21.4M 22.7M 23.8M increase -----
11.5 14.4 12.0 3.9 6.1 4.8
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MVS Research QR and Indirect Income
03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08 08/09 09/10 HEFCE
Research 6.2M 6.5M 7.3M 6.2M 6.3M 6.5M 6.3
M Research Indirect 2.3M 2.6M 2.9M 3.5M 3.1M
4.2M 4.5M Charity indirect ----- -----
----- 1.9M 2.4M 2.4M 3.0M Services
Rendered 0.67M 0.97M 1.0M 1.1M 1.3M 1.4M 1.
5M Other Indirect 0.05M 0.07M 0.21M 0.08M 0.2
9M 0.27M 0.33M Total Indirect 9.2M 10.1M 11.4
M 12.8M 13.4M 14.8M 15.6M increase -----
9.8 12.9 12.3 4.7 10.4 5.4
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MVS Salary Costs(minus costs of Reward
implementation)
03/04 04/05 05/06 06/07 07/08 08/09 09/10 Total
Salaries 13.3M 14.2M 14.6M 14.9M 16.1M 16.6
M 17.1M Annual Increase ----- 6.7 3.1 2.0 8.1
3.1 3.0 of Income (-direct) 56 54 49 44
46 44 43