Paddy Gordon, owner of a mixed practice and farm vet, discusses his observations and experience in vet recruitment and retention. Increasing student numbers are coming through University but equine and farm need to be given sufficient opportunity and encouragement to allow students to select these careers. Paddy will highlight how practitioners can help students with early experience as well as support students most effectively through EMS. Championing success has also been important in developing the Farm Vet of the Future competition. Paddy has 30 years experience in practice and is working with Bristol and Surrey vet schools.

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Farm Vet of the Future Award

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

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Nominations for BEVA Nurse Empowerment Award open

BEVA Under Care templates

Equine Infectious Disease Surveillance Group

BEVA CPD

March EVJ In Conversation podcast: The Congress 2023 Peter Rossdale Clinical Evidence Lecture - Sarah Freeman on changing hearts and minds to improve equine health and welfare.

March EVE podcast: Christopher Baldwin's article 'A review of prevention and management of castration complications’.

BEVApod Life episode: Building Bridges with Ben Benson

BEVApod Focus episode: multi-drug resistant Rhodococcus equi with Fleur Whitlock

Fleur, EIDS epidemiologist, provides an overview of the 2023 Q4 Equine Quarterly Disease Surveillance Report Focus Article, authored by Jose Vazquez-Boland and his team at the University of Edinburgh. Given how we’ve managed R. equi infections over the years, it's not surprising that we're now confronted with a troubling silent pandemic of multi-resistance. Eradicating it once it establishes itself in a country will prove immensely challenging, emphasising the critical importance of surveillance contributions within the UK. Discover how you can play a part in making a difference.

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Equine Infectious Disease Surveillance (EIDS) website

Report a case, call: 01223 766 496 or email: [email protected]

EIDS Report 2023 Q4

Focus Article: Update on emerging multidrug-resistant Rhodococcus equi

Having supported some of the world's top equestrian teams both at home and at Championships over a number of years, Ben has worked alongside some of the most experienced vets, physiotherapists and saddle fitters, and hence has an appreciation for the importance of teamwork.

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

Latest EIDS Report

BEVApod Focus: Sedating for Non-Veterinary Procedures with Neil Townsend

February's EVJ In Conversation podcast

Clinical insights: Who says there is no progress with solving tendon disease? (Roger Smith) 

Lumbar vertebral bone density is decreased in horses with pituitary pars intermedia dysfunction (Hal Schott)

February's EVE podcast

Neurologic deficits and surgical treatment in a horse affected with internal carotid artery tortuous elongation (Astrid Rijkenhuizen) - This article has been made free for one month.

BEVA Trustee, co-opted member of Clinical Practice Committee, Ethics and Welfare Committee and Chair of the Governance Committee for the BEVA/BVDA Exam, explains the new guidance document which BEVA has created (with input from the RCVS and VDS) for vets carrying out sedation for non-veterinary procedures.

View the full guidance

Don't Break Your Vet playlist

BAEDT members list

Whether it's handling dangerous drugs or working with unhandled yearlings, as veterinary surgeons we take calculated risks daily. After becoming pregnant with her first child, Emily identified a need for clear and concise guidance for veterinarians navigating pregnancy and parenting in clinical practice. After researching the information for herself, she decided to write a book to help new mothers make evidence based decisions about their work practices. Her book is called "Pregnancy and Postpartum Considerations for the Veterinary Team", and she now offers 'Ultimate Parenting Road Map' workshops in addition to one-to-one mentoring on the subject. Council Member, Angela Jones, joins us to discuss how planning ahead where possible, and having access to the relevant information helps ease the stresses and strains of trying to manage work-life and family-life during those early days in the process.

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

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• RCVS Academy launches client confidentiality course

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• BEVA CPD

Nicky has seen the positive impact animals have on their human counterparts in extremis. From service dogs supporting soldiers in war zones, to welfare cases in society, and The Horse Trust herd helping vets and scientists progress the knowledge we have and the practical implications. Through BEVA she hopes to distill information into digestible and workable solutions for vets to provide to their patients and their owners...

Edd has always enjoyed working on projects and has seamlessly woven this into a successful clinical career. Whilst recognising the opportunities and support that have allowed this to happen, alongside the funding, particularly from The Horse Trust and Waltham Petcare Science Institute, it is clear that his open-minded approach to careers and dedication to having a clinical impact have contributed to his success. With one leg in research and the other in general practice, he can understand the challenges vets face, and brings this perspective to the research he carries out; from Strangles to laminitis, and now Atypical Myopathy. His variety of skills and experience has enabled him to move the fulcrum of work-life balance as life has evolved, and this helps fuel his passion for exploring the frontiers of veterinary knowledge.