BEVA pod

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.

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

Find out more about the top stories:

• RCVS President's first speech

Don't forget to book your Congress ticket, prices increase after Wednesday 7 August! Book now at bevacongress.org

In this epsiode, Tim Barnett chats to world-renowned head and neck surgeon Geoff Lane about his impressive career in equine medicine.

Congress has so much to offer this year, and none more so than for nurses! With more practicals than ever and workshops abound, the programme features numerous streams which nurses will find relevant to the various fields within which they work. Friday features 'one medicine', critical care, bandaging, casting and suturing, and ends with a neurodiversity workshop. Come and feed your professional soul with us in Liverpool - 11th-14th September!

Buy your ticket at bevacongress.org

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

• RCVS governance consultation

• Watch the intro video from RCVS President Sue Paterson

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

*Please note that since the recording of this episode the EVDA Practical Equine Dentistry course has been cancelled the Nursing: Schedule 3 Skills course on 29 June has become fully booked, places are still available on 20 June course*

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• CVS Group divests ts operations in the Netherlands the Republic of Ireland

Careers Committee update

RCVS Roundtable on the use of AI in the profession

www.equinesurveillance.org

EVJ On the Hoof: BEVA primary care clinical guidelines: Equine parasite control May 2024

EVE podcast: 'A clinical audit of the intravenous fluid therapy given to hospitalised horses’ with Natalie Dodd

EVJ On the Hoof: 'Comparison of veterinarians and a deep learning tool in the diagnosis of equine ophthalmic diseases’ by Annabel Scharre et al. May 2024

During his Presidency, Dave Rendle's objective was to tidy up the way we use anthelmintics and start to afford these essential medicines the protection they deserve. On forming the Anthelmintic Working Group, he invited Nic Steel was to be one of the first opinion practitioners to help the group create simple, practical and effective guidance on how vets at the coal face could take responsibility for their roles in the unfolding tragedy that is anthelmintic resistance. Nic talks us through the protectMEtoo toolkit and how it now provides every vet with access to the essential, evidence-based, digestible (you can read this stuff in the time it takes to drink a coffee!) information that they need to know to help their clients and save these medicines for the future.

View the protectMEtoo toolkit here.