BSAVA Companion - 2018, 2, February

Is mental health costing your practice?

Nele Van Den Steen graduated from Ghent University in 2002. She completed a small animal internship at the Animal Health Trust in Newmarket where she continued as an oncology fellow and studied for a Masters in Clinical Oncology at the University of Birmingham. She was awarded her MSc in 2012 and presently works at Cave Veterinary Specialist in the West Country. Here Nele answers your oncology questions.

The technology and digital revolution is on a roll whether we like it or not and the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons is making plans to help veterinary professionals take their place at the forefront of this innovation.

Lisa Morrow and Allison German, contributors to the forthcoming BSAVA Manual of Shelter Medicine: Principles of Health and Welfare in A Multi-animal Environment, discuss how to recognize and manage parvovirus in cats in a shelter environment.

The BSAVA collaborates with its affiliated groups to offer specialist CPD. Many of the groups organize talks during the Wednesday of Congress while others participate in the main programme. For full details and registration for pre-Congress events, please contact the organization directly.

While in the third year at Nottingham vet school Heather McKay was the recipient of a PetSavers Student Research Project Undergraduate Bursary to help fund her research project looking at erythropoietin in canine transmissible venereal tumour disease.

The prestigious BSAVA Bourgelat award (2018) for outstanding international contributions to the field of small animal practice will be awarded at this year’s Congress to Clarence Rawlings, one of the pioneers of keyhole surgery. Clarence is emeritus professor of surgery at the University of Georgia veterinary school and here he discusses the benefits the introduction of minimal invasive surgery can offer first-opinion practices.

Veterinarians should avoid playing the ‘antibiotic alphabet’ game when it is their turn to treat a patient with recurrent urinary tract infections – as everyone is likely to lose, practitioners attending BSAVA Congress 2018 will be told.

Cats don’t necessarily need to have regular visits to a veterinary clinic to ensure that their health is being looked after, BSAVA members will hear at the Association’s annual congress in Birmingham.

Samantha Elmhurst is a professional member of the Institute of Medical Illustrators and is the artist responsible for many of the illustrations that appear in the BSAVA manuals. She comes from a family of animal lovers in a house with many pets, and as a young girl was lucky enough to have her own pony when the family relocated to Norfolk. After training as an artist in London, she eventually returned to Norwich where she set up her own company; Living Art.

News and events from the BSAVA's regions.

A calendar of forthcoming central and regional CPD events February - June 2018.