BEVA pod

BEVApod Newsflash: June 2024

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
  • Read the PDF consultation paper
  • Listen to a podcast from Lizzie Lockett and Ben Myring from the RCVS
  • Register for the RCVS webinar about the consultation on Monday 1 July.
• BEVA Trust volunteering opportunity in Lesotho
• BEVA CPD courses

 

 

BEVApod Newsflash: May 2024

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*

 

Links

• 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

• BEVA Council nominations open
• Student rep applications now open

• 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

• BEVA CPD

BEVApod Focus: protectMEtoo toolkit with Nichola Steel

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.

BEVApod Life: Career coaching with Back in the Saddle

Back in the Saddle is our new coaching programme specifically designed to support members who are seeking career support and are more than five years qualified.

Our coaches Kate Blakeman, Gemma Dransfield, Sophie Eaden, Claire Goodban and Lucy Grieve tell us more about the scheme and how it will support members.

Applications are now open for our first intake, find out more and apply today.

BEVApod Newsflash: April 2024

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

Links

• Back in the Saddle group career coaching

• protectMEtoo anthelmintic tookit

• Vets with Horsepower

• BEVApod Focus: MDR R equi with Fleur Whitlock

• WOAH Equine Rhinopneumonitis webinar

• Horse Trust Talk Equine Library

• Redwings.co.uk

BEVApod Life: Tackling workforce challenges in ambulatory practice with Paddy Gordon

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.

 

Links

• Paddy Gordon's Facebook

• Paddy Gordon's LinkedIn

• Farm Vet of the Future Award

BEVApod Newsflash: March 2024

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

Links

1. Nominations for BEVA Nurse Empowerment Award open

2. BEVA Under Care templates

3. Equine Infectious Disease Surveillance Group

4. BEVA CPD

5. 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.

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

7. BEVApod Life episode: Building Bridges with Ben Benson

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

BEVApod Focus: Emergence of 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.

 

Links

• Equine Infectious Disease Surveillance (EIDS) website

• Report a case, call: 01223 766 496 or email: equinesurveillance@gmail.com

• EIDS Report 2023 Q4

• Focus Article: Update on emerging multidrug-resistant Rhodococcus equi