Being a horse vet is very dangerous. Please don't ask your vet to 'have a go' in order to avoid sedating your horse. If your vet recommends sedation it's for the safety of the vet, the owner and the horse.

Our recent study on how vets define workplace injuries has been picked up by Horse & Hound >20% said something was only an injury if couldn’t carry out work as normal. 19% said they wouldn’t report any injury article: www.horseandhound.co.uk/news/equine-... Paper: doi.org/10.1093/occm...

Start the week off by reading our new paper about zoonotic infections and vet students! Almost a third reported experiencing one during their training! How did they acquire them? What did they do once they had it? Read more to find out! 🐄🐑🐖🐶🐈 doi.org/10.1186/s128...

🚨New paper🚨 Zoonotic infections in UK & Irish Vet Students Funded by Academy of Medical Sciences via INSPIRE doi.org/10.1186/s128...

Great paper by James Oxley and team exploring how vet students stayed further away from a virtual reality aggressive dog if they had received canine behaviour training. Highlights that VR may be a critical part of dog safety education. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Epidemiology is a scientific discipline aiming at understanding the factors that influence the distribution of diseases in populations to provide scientific evidence to policy-makers. 🎬 Check out in video what doing research in #veterinary epidemiology in our team means! t.co/y3PBRQrjbe

🚨New pre-print 🚨 Pain, inconvenience, & blame: Defining work-related injuries in veterinary workplace doi.org/10.1101/2023... Funder: CVS UK Ltd Written with amazing co-authors! Thread to follow 1/n