BEVA pod – Details, episodes & analysis

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

• BEVA Nurse Members gain right to vote

• BEVA Infectious Disease hub

• Equine castration app

• VMD medicines update

• BEVA's Christmas Cracker

• London International Horse Show Programme

• September EVE podcast: "Respiratory emergencies in adult horses" (Bettina Dunkel)

• September EVJ On the Hoof podcast: "Heritability of sudden cardiac death in Thoroughbred racehorses" (Vicky Colgate)

• BEVApod Congress: The Foot with guardian of the foot, Dr Simon Curtis

• BEVApod Life: Residencies and all the ways to do one with Phil Cramp, Paul Martynski and Rhiannon Morgan

• BEVA CPD courses

There are so many options out there if you want to specialise as an equine vet... almost too many to choose from. What area to specialise in, university or private practice, UK or USA, European Diploma or American... the world is pretty much your oyster but timing may play a part and what role you're best suited to also... consider the options, as it could be your ticket to anywhere!

Links:

• European College of Veterinary Surgeons (ECVS)
• American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine (ACVIM)
• European College of Equine Internal Medicine (ECEIM)
• European College of Veterinary Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation (ECVSMR)
• European College of Veterinary Diagnostic Imaging (ECVDI)

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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. This approach is no less important when dealing with a happy hacker or retired pony, and the difference between what can be achieved when working alone Vs in collaboration with each other is vast. In today's world, communicating and growing knowledge together has never been easier and should be embraced at every opportunity.

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.