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BEVApod Life: Menopause: supporting the women in our profession with Liz Barton and Gemma Dransfield

Menopause is an increasingly hot topic for the general population, but there are aspects of equine veterinary work which can make elements of this normal ageing process more challenging for those affected and the people around them. Liz talks us through the basic understanding which we all need in order to fully support our workforce during those times, and Gemma relays how far-reaching the impact of menopause is, from the very subtle to the more obvious!

 

Links

• Wellvet resources

• ‘Medical misogyny’ is leaving women in unnecessary pain and undiagnosed for years

• BVA menopause hub

• Veterinary Menopause Chats

• Wellvet menopause video

• Dr Morton's

• Newson Health

• Balance app (symptom tracker)

BEVApod Newsflash: December 2024

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

• RCVS workforce model highlights need for more vets working in public health

• VMD seizes over 13,000 unauthorised horse medicines sold illegally online

• Report suspected breached of the AMRs here: 01932 338338 or online.

• How British racing’s data-driven Racing Risk Models are being used to improve outcomes for racehorses.

• The BHA has announced changes to the Rules of Racing, which have been approved by the BHA Board.

• VetCT X-pert Radiation Safety Centre

• National Equine Forum 2025

BEVApod Focus: Equine infectious diseases... have you caught up? With Kate Blakeman

BEVA's Junior Vice President, Kate Blakeman, talks us through the the new Infectious Diseases hub on the BEVA website. Celia Marr chairs the BEVA Equine Infectious Diseases Group, which worked on this treasure trove of resources which helps vets and nurses out in practice. There are resources for clients also, which vets and nurses can share with the touch of a button. More resources are being worked on and the hub will evolve over time to b your one-stop-shop for clinical sign radars to consensus building tools, endemic to exotic, and biosecurity to vaccines.

 

Links

1. BEVA Equine Infectious Diseases hub

BEVApod Focus: The gut microbiome, horse health and performance with Chris Proudman

This year Professor Chris Proudman published the first paper to demonstrate associations between a foal’s gut microbiome and its future athletic performance and its future respiratory health. The emerging fields of the "omics" has been one of the most exciting branches of science in recent years. Whilst we're a little way off understanding exactly how to capitalise on this in practice, it's already evident that interventions such as antibiotics and probiotics could potentially have far-reaching impacts on future health and performance.

 

Links

• Early-life gut bacterial community structure predicts disease risk and athletic performance in horses bred for racing (Leng, J., Moller-Levet, C., Mansergh, R.I. et al. 2024)

• Horse Microbiome Research Group

• Alborada Well Foal Study

• The ALBORADA Trust

• Horserace Betting Levy Board (HBLB)

BEVApod Newsflash: November 2024

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

1. EVJ Virtual Issue - Antibiotics: Our part in their downfall

2. BEVA primary care clinical guidelines: Equine parasite control

3. Environmental impacts of equine parasiticide treatment: The UK perspective

4. BEVA protectMEtoo guidelines

5. CANTER Guidelines (First Edition) 2024

6. Austin Davis Laboratories: What's your worm risk?

7. BEF and member bodies monitoring EHV reports in France – extra vigilance required

8. BEVA Trust

BEVA podcasts:

1. November EVJ In Conversation podcast: BEVA Congress 2024 John Hickman Plenary Lecture - 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They? The Past, Present, and Future of Fracture Management' by Dean Richardson

2. November EVE podcast: Case Report: Complete abdominal wall rupture in a late-term pregnant mare with pre-existing prepubic tendon rupture with Alex Gillen

3. BEVApod Focus: Hold your horses! Have you completed BEVA's new course?

BEVApod Focus: Hold your horses! Have you completed BEVA's new course?

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.

BEVApod Newsflash: October 2024

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

• BEVA warn of risk of sycamores

• 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

• Equip Artervac supply issue

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

• Browse all of our courses

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

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