BSAVA Companion - 2019, 1, January

A PDF of the full January issue of Companion.  

BSAVA Congress heads North; calling all charity vets; beat the Congress early bird deadline; new pocketbook out now.

BSAVA aims to become more flexible and accountable, with a series of changes to the way its run set to be proposed at the next AGM scheduled for Sunday 7 April 2019 at the BSAVA Congress in Birmingham.

The BSAVA is an influential organization on the national policy-making stage and with policy as one of the current BSAVA President’s themes for the presidency, Head of BSAVA Policy, Adrienne Conroy, provides an insight into some of the BSAVA’s recent policy activities.

The British Small Animal Veterinary Association (BSAVA) and the Wales Veterinary Science Centre (WVSC) have launched Vets Cymru, a 2-day event offering both large and small animal ‘CPD by the sea’ for vets and vet nurses.

Obesity in a dog is not a sign of moral weakness in either the animal or its owner – but a genuine disease requiring prompt and effective veterinary attention, delegates attending BSAVA Congress 2019 will hear.

For the winner of this year’s BSAVA Bourgelat prize for outstanding international contributions to advancing small practice, the journey to Birmingham will be shorter than that for many of his predecessors. The award is being given to Mike Herrtage from the University of Cambridge veterinary school, a longstanding supporter and former president of the association.

Female vets continue to be paid a lower salary than male colleagues with identical qualifications. Yet the biggest barrier to achieving better gender equality in the veterinary profession is made up of bosses who believe that discrimination is no longer a serious problem, BVA members were told at their annual congress in London on 16 November.

Grace Dickinson is the founder of Reptiles etc, a company that trains animals for film and television work. As the company name suggests, her work doesn–t just focus on the more familiar species of four-legged thespians like dogs or horses, but a wide range of other taxa, including invertebrates. She told John Bonner about her job and how the methods that she uses could make life easier for veterinary staff.

Article abstracts from the latest issue of JSAP.

News and events from the BSAVA's regions.

A calendar of forthcoming central and regional CPD events January - April 2019.