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Getting a Leg Up: BEVA's coaching scheme
03/10/2023
BEVA launched the BEVA Leg Up mentoring scheme four years ago. Here Cat McKenzie, an experienced equine vet, and Heather Frenkiel, an early career vet, discuss their experiences of the Leg Up mentoring scheme. -
Millie Byrne decided a quiet life wasn’t for her and completed a master’s degree in veterinary physiotherapy – and before she’d even finished she had taken the plunge and started her own business.
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Vet and owner of Unicorn Trails Wendy Hofstee explains how she developed a horse-riding holiday business alongside a successful career in emergency veterinary work
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My faith is the foundation to my life
04/06/2022
Jonathan Anderson is one of four equine surgeons at Rainbow Equine Hospital in North Yorkshire. He is also one of the clinical directors responsible for running the business -
From graduation to equine vet
01/04/2022
Early career vet, Mel Lean, discusses life after vet school overseas and the choices she has made to fulfil her ambition of becoming an equine vet. Life is all about the journey... -
BVA’s Young Vet of the Year in 2021 was Alex Davies, who developed a mentoring programme that has enabled school students to benefit from virtual work experience placements during Covid-19
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My career as a donkey vet
18/05/2021
Having grown up with donkeys, Alex Thiemann has found that once you’ve been involved with these special animals, you always want to be around them. -
Having begun her career as an equine vet, Stephanie Dakin is now Associate Professor of Musculoskeletal Sciences at the University of Oxford. Here, she describes her journey from practitioner to researcher
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Amie Wilson is a resident in equine internal medicine at the University of Liverpool where she is involved in clinical cases, research and teaching students
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Malcolm Morley bucked a family trend and became a vet rather than a doctor. He now works as an ambulatory equine vet caring for horses across Hampshire
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Niamh Lewis is a specialist in equine reproduction. She completed a PhD in equine oocyte and embryo metabolism and sat her board exams in 2015
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Madeleine Campbell is a recognised Diplomate and specialist in equine reproduction and recognised as a Diplomate in animal welfare science, ethics and law
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Bettina Dunkel is associate professor in equine medicine at the RVC. She is diplomate of both the ACVIM and ACVECC
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Lucy Meehan is a European and RCVS recognised specialist in veterinary diagnostic imaging. Here she discusses what her specialist future holds
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Marco Duz is a European and RCVS recognised specialist in equine internal medicine. Here he discusses his route into his specialism and his current role in academia
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Ben Sturgeon left private practice to join an equine charity that provides veterinary care for animals in developing countries
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Charlotte Hartley and Andrew Wallace work at practices that were both awarded ‘outstanding’ in the RCVS Award for Client Service
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Kieran Rowley is a director of Buckingham Equine Vets and has ambitions to become a recognised specialist in equine dentistry
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Being an equine veterinary nurse specialist
21/12/2018
Equine veterinary nurses Rosina Lillywhite and Katie Clarke talk about their careers, the best bits of the job and their career highlights -
From the army to equine practice
15/09/2018
After 10 years working with dogs and horses in the Army, Nicola Housby now works in equine practice