BEVA pod

BEVApod Newsflash: December 2023

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

 

Further information on each news item can be found at the following links: 

• Submit your abstract for 2024 Colic Symposium
• Bluetongue in the UK
• Free BEVA membership for veterinary nurse students
• Free subscription to EquiManagement for BEVA members
• Vitamin D in racehorses
• "Elitist" risk if EMS placements leave students poorer
• No evidence for vet medicine pollution
• Proposed reforms for journey time to slaughter
• 10% discount to SPVS Congress for BEVA members
• Meet the 2024 BEVA Congress Committee
• BEVA Trust
• Equine Infectious Disease Surveillance
• Tell-Tail Disease Outbreak Alerts
• BEVA podcasts
• EVJ On the Hoof Podcast
• EVE podcasts
• BEVA CPD

BEVApod Life: Making equine practice sustainable for everyone with Helen Bickerton

Helen talks about her passion for the equine veterinary industry, and how despite its challenges there can be solutions to fit most, if not all. What practices need is good leaders, skilled managers, an ethos which nurtures trust and a team which embraces healthy compromise from all sides. As individuals experience life's pushes and pulls, there must be understanding that goal posts will change and challenges will arise, but that this can be used to everyone's advantage if the the industry works together.

BEVApod Life: Making equine work fit around your life with Angela Jones

On graduation, Angela completed an internship and spent time in traditional equine practice. But as life evolved, and with the arrival of kids, it became harder to balance the scales. Always one to think outside the box and ever willing to take up new opportunities, she has added more strings to her bow, and established a work-life balance in the equine field which works for her and her family.

BEVApod Life: Innovation, Internationalisation and Intellectualisation with BEVA President, Roger Smith

Roger Smith has championed evidence-based medicine and driven progress throughout his career as a researcher and surgeon at the Royal Veterinary College. In this episode he describes how he is bringing this approach to his current role as BEVA President. From launching new CPD and social events, addressing challenges which are impacting recruitment and retention, to supporting the careers of vets and nurses, and extending BEVA's reach to all corners of the globe.

BEVApod Newsflash: November 2023

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

 

Further information on each news item can be found at the following links: 

• BEVA warns horse owners not to hoard antibiotics
• Measuring antibiotic use in equine practice
• Tim Mair and Pam Mosedale RCVS Knowledge podcast
• Reduced revenues arising from implementation of affordability checks on betting could have a knock-on effect on equine welfare and veterinary science
• BEVA and BSEVA joint student membership
• RCVS project to enhance veterinary clinical career pathways
• BEVA Trust volunteering opportunity
• EVJ On the Hoof podcast
• EVE podcast
• Education Committee update

View all of our upcoming courses on the BEVA CPD page.

BEVApod Legends: Professor Joe Mayhew

Tim Barnett chats to neurology expert Professor Emeritus Joe Mayhew about his impressive career.

BEVApod Life: BEVA’s new Junior Vice President, and the art of veterinary medicine with Imogen Burrows

Imogen Burrows joined BEVA Council in 2020 with a wealth of front line experience, contributing to valuable resources and projects aimed at general practice. This year she was elected as Junior Vice President and is looking forward to tackling the issues, providing representation and delivering the tools that will benefit our members, from safety to welfare, from social license to veterinary ethics... Listen to Imogen talk about why the responsibility lies with all of us and how we can play our parts.

BEVApod Newsflash: October 2023

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

 

Further information on each news item can be found at the following links:

• BEVA primary care clinical guidelines
• BEVA ‘fully supportive’ of Grand National race changes
• RCVS public advisory group has first meeting, to discuss how they will work with the college on new advice for pet owners on interaction with veterinary teams
• RCVS opens 2024 awards nomination period
• Nominations now open for £100,000 Plowright Prize
• RCVS makes ‘reflection’ changes to its 1CPD platform
• A record number of 27 successful candidates for the RCVS Statutory Examination for Membership were welcomed to the Register of Veterinary Surgeons on Tuesday 24 October, at a special ceremony recognising their achievement
• Fight must go on to ‘protect title’, outgoing BVNA president tells congress
• New BVNA president calls for ‘more on pay’ during congress
• VMD Medicines Update - September 2023
• Antibiotic Amnesty
• Flu Awareness Week
• AWF launches 2024 research grant scheme
• Biobank for Vets – Equine Grass Sickness Fund

Other BEVA podcasts:

• EVE Podcast No. 53
• EVJ in Conversation Podcast No. 71

BEVA CPD courses:

• Clinical Catch Up: Ultrasonography of the Tarsus - Top Tips and Techniques
• Transatlantic Equine Clinic: Helminths - Can We Stop the Global Tsunami of Resistance?
• Innovation in Practice
• Advanced Discussion Forum: Orthopaedic Soft Tissue Injury
• Unravelling Unsoundness
• Championing Soundness