BEVA pod

BEVApod Life: Being Horsey or Not, It Doesn’t Matter! with Lucy Harrison & Meg Perkins

Lucy and Meg are third year veterinary students at Harper-Keele. Lucy has practically grown up in equine veterinary practice, while Meg has had to learn her headcollars from her chiffneys, and her stifles from her knees. Both have experienced challenges, but with their refreshingly honest and supportive approaches, they are comfortable and confident of their futures within equine practice. How can we all help the next generation of vets blossom in the equine industry, no matter where their roots were laid?

BEVApod Life: Staying Sound as an Equine Vet with Gemma Dransfield and Sophie Eaden

Council members Gemma Dransfield and Sophie Eaden discuss a time when Gemma was finding equine practice particularly challenging. How can you recognise when you're struggling at work what can you do next? Gemma shares how she made equine practice work for her and some valuable advice for anyone who might be finding it difficult.

BEVApod Newsflash: June 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:

• VMD anonymous reporting of illegal animal medicines

• RCVS Knowledge VetTeamAMR

• RCVS MMI Symposium - Manchester - 10th October 2023

• Q1 2023 Equine Infectious Disease Surveillance Report

• SPVS Vet Fees survey

• FEI Equine Ethics and Wellbeing Commission survey

• PPID Quality of Life Survey

• RVC - Equine Register - Horse Trust tracking data and infectious disease research

• WHW Horses in Sport and Social Licence event - BEVA news coverage and YouTube video

• BEVApod

• EVE podcasts

• EVJ podcasts

BEVApod Life: Taking MRCVS knowledge to the equids of India with Shiv Patil

Third year RVC student, Shiv Patil, was inspired to become a vet during his time riding horses and helping with dog rescue centres back home, in Bangalore. Advised to acquire the best veterinary education he could, he came to the UK with the intention of learning all he could. His plan is to take that knowledge back with him, to improve the lives of sports horses, working equids and rescued dogs in India. Recognising the value of education, he is intent of making veterinary education and CPD more accessible to vets in India, whilst improving access to veterinary care for the animals they care for.

BEVApod Life: Training yourself to be an Equine Vet in the Ukraine with Yuliia Zaruda

Final year veterinary student, Yuliia Zaruda, tells us about life as a vet student in Kyiv. With a lack of modern teaching resources and infrastructure to support the profession, vet students are working as qualified vets before they graduate and are taking self-directed learning to a whole other level. After completing an internship here in the UK, Yuliia hopes to one day bring her surgical skills back to the Ukraine to build a future for equine vets in her home country, and to enable the horses there to have access to the veterinary care that we so often take for granted here in the UK.

BEVApod Newsflash: May 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: 

• Genetic testing for type 2 polysaccharide storage myopathy (PSSM2), myofibrillar myopathy (MFM) or Muscle Integrity Myopathy
• Use of animals in sport - BVA Live discussion

• Accusations IVC "placing profits before people" over jobs axe threat

• RCVS and BVCIS "Disability and Chronic Illness in Veterinary Work and Education"survey
• BEVA Trust reaches halfway target to fund power to Ukraine
• BEVA Sportive
• RCVS Academy "Starting Out" programme for VNs
• EVJ Article of the Week -

  Five- versus seven-day dosing intervals of extended-release injectable omeprazole in the treatment of equine squamous and glandular gastric disease"

• BEVA Council candidate nominations open
• Submissions invited for 14th International Equine Colic Research Symposium abstracts
• Scottish Regional Meeting
• Advanced Equine Behaviour
• Feeding the Surgical Patient
• Advanced EDT Course
• Maximising Sports Horse Performance
• BEVA Congress tickets

BEVApod Life: Mentoring Your Way Through Life and Practice with Tania Sundra

Tania Sundra of Avon Ridge Equine Veterinary Services, Australia, reveals how much the community we foster within our profession enables us to feel safe, satisfied and supported through out careers. We are all accountable for our own experiences, but by reaching out to others and building a professional network we can achieve so much more within our own lives and within the industries we work in.

 

Links

1. Avon Ridge Equine Services

2. BEVA Leg Up Career Coaching

3. Come and network at BEVA Congress!

 

BEVApod Life: Kicking Doors Down with Naomi Mellor

Naomi Mellor talks to us about how 'networking' is the key to discovering opportunities within the equine veterinary profession. With so many ways to network nowadays, how can we '"kick open the doors" to finding a career which works for us as individuals, and have fun in the process!