BEVA pod

RCVS Specialist in equine behavioural medicine, Gemma Pearson, talks us through the background story of this new course, available free to BEVA members. Gemma has compiled a bite-size, digestible course with the busy practitioner in mind, which includes new material, on equine behaviour and learning theory. Once completed, members will be added to a list on the BEVA website, demonstrating their knowledge and skills in this increasingly important aspect of clinical practice. Not only will you be able to work more safely and efficiently, but also with the calmness and ease that both horses and owners will benefit from and be grateful for.

BEVA members can access the course here.

A rundown of the most important news from the last month that you need to know as a veterinary professional including:

Standards & Advice update: Advice published on amended Veterinary Medicines Regulations

Read the RCVS guide to the VMR changes

RCVS Registration categories webpage

Fellowship Day page on the RCVS website

Royal Veterinary College’s fact sheet on Atypical myopathy and the British Horse Society a fact sheet on Acorn Poisoning

Clinical Practice Committee update - October 2024

BEVA podcasts:

BEVA Sustainability Working Group at the the Dung Beetle Conference

EVJ Special Focus Edition: Interdisciplinary approaches to equine soft‐tissue surgery

October EVJ In Conversation: Peter Rossdale Clinical Evidence Lecture from BEVA Congress 2024: Improving evidence for orthopaedics by Andy Carr

EVE October podcast Chessie Greenham and Gemma Pearson discuss her article ‘Welfare considerations for management of horses on prolonged periods of box rest

BEVApod Life: I never thought it would happen to me... but it did with Becky Price, Steph Gillespie and Andy Elkington

BEVA member PG Mutual Income Protection discounts

BEVApod Life: Pregnancy, parenting and equine practice with Gemma Dransfield and Kate Blakeman

BEVA CPD:

BEVA's Christmas Cracker

Gemma and Kate have both experienced the challenges faced by pregnant women and working parents, which are somewhat unique to those working in the equine veterinary industry. Where Vicki Nicholls' MumsVet initiative served to help, Gemma and Kate carried out the sizeable task of reviewing and updating the information provided. By working as a supportive community to help each other practices benefit from a happier workforce with increased trust and empathy across the team.

Access our pregnancy and parenting resources

Illness and injury can happen to anyone, but as equine vets and nurses we're at increased risk of being rendered unable to work. Two BEVA members have come to share their experiences of being off work and how income protection helped them through that time. BEVA members are eligible for discounted cover from PG Mutual, so CEO Andy Elkington joined us to explain how it works.

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For equine veterinary professionals "being kind to ourselves" can sound a bit soft. Clinical Psychologist Dr Wakelin shares with us how actually it's quite the opposite and how it can support our performance in the workplace as well as life outside of work. Dr Wakelin tells Council member Sophie Eaden more about what compassion is, how it can help and when it might be especially needed.

Support and advice for improving your mental wellbeing can be found at:

• Vetlife

A rundown of the most important news from the last month that you need to know as a veterinary professional including:

BEVA Nurse Members gain right to vote

BEVA Infectious Disease hub

Equine castration app

VMD medicines update

BEVA's Christmas Cracker

London International Horse Show Programme

September EVE podcast: "Respiratory emergencies in adult horses" (Bettina Dunkel)

September EVJ On the Hoof podcast: "Heritability of sudden cardiac death in Thoroughbred racehorses" (Vicky Colgate)

BEVApod Congress: The Foot with guardian of the foot, Dr Simon Curtis

BEVApod Life: Residencies and all the ways to do one with Phil Cramp, Paul Martynski and Rhiannon Morgan

• BEVA CPD courses

There are so many options out there if you want to specialise as an equine vet... almost too many to choose from. What area to specialise in, university or private practice, UK or USA, European Diploma or American... the world is pretty much your oyster but timing may play a part and what role you're best suited to also... consider the options, as it could be your ticket to anywhere!

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Farrier and Honorary Associate of the RCVS, Simon Curtis, talks to us about 'The Foot' stream at Congress this year, which takes place on the Saturday. The wealth of knowledge and skill which will be brought together looks to revolutionise how we tackle not only clinical conditions but how we view farriery as a way to help prevent various common causes of lameness. With vets and farriers singing from the same hymn sheet we can see significantly improved welfare and performance.

A rundown of the most important news from the last month that you need to know as a veterinary professional including:

Important changes to Export Health Certificate attestation requirements

Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS) Veterinary Clinical Careers Pathway (VCCP) Project focus groups

RCVS AI Roundtable Report

BHA announces changes to Proton Pump Inhibitors regulation

Ragwort article from BEVA Sustainability Working Group

BEVA Pregnancy & Parenting

Early-life gut bacterial community structure predicts disease risk and athletic performance in horses bred for racing - Leng et al 2024

Naturally occurring horse model of miscarriage reveals temporal relationship between chromosomal aberration type and point of lethality - Lawson et al 2024

Vetlife Neurodiversity booklet

Equine Quarterly Disease Surveillance Report Q3 2024

Strangles vaccine article

BEVA CPD:

• BEVA Congress

From the Journals:

EVJ in Conversation: Celebrating 10 years of the EVJ podcast! features Christian Byrne discussing 'Interobserver agreement during clinical magnetic resonance imaging of the equine foot’ and Josie Faulkner discussing 'Low-field magnetic resonance imaging of sagittal groove disease of the proximal phalanx in non-racing sport horses’ and 'Auxiliary osseous findings in fetlocks of non-racing sports horses with sagittal groove disease of the proximal phalanx on low-field magnetic resonance imaging’

EVE podcast this month features Fabrice Rossignol discusses 'Distal radial fracture repair in adult horses’

Nurses have been BEVA members for a long time, but as the professions progress and the industry changes we have seen the creation of the BEVA Nurse Committee and promotion of nurses' skills with the Schedule 3 guidance. Now nurses will be eligible to stand for BEVA Council, with two elected positions available going forwards. Bruce and Marie talk about why this development is so important for all of us in the industry.