If I could sit down with every veterinary practice owner and equine practice owner for just one conversation, there is one thing I would want them to understand early. You do not need to work…
If you are an equine practice owner and equine veterinarian, I want to ask you something gently, because I know how common this is. Are you busy… but still worried? Are you booked out, running…
Every equine veterinarian knows their job can be dangerous – and the equine veterinarian injury risk is far higher than most people realise. Handling a half-ton animal that may panic or kick is “just part…
Radiography plays an important role in equine practice. It informs lameness investigations, prepurchase examinations, and discussions around performance, prognosis, and risk. Imaging of the thoracolumbar spine has become increasingly routine, including in horses that are…
By the time a horse owner picks up the phone to call you, the consultation has already started. In most cases, it started hours, sometimes days earlier, on Google, in a social media community, or…
There are few areas of equine practice that generate as much professional pressure as lameness. Not because the principles are unknown – but because the stakes are high, the answers are rarely binary, and expectations…
There is no shortage of continuing education available to equine veterinarians. What has become increasingly difficult is deciding which platforms are actually worth your time, attention, and trust. Online and hybrid veterinary continuing education has…
There is a point in most equine veterinary careers when dentistry shifts from being “something you do” to something that quietly carries weight. Not because the procedures suddenly become complex, but because expectations do. Owners…
There’s a moment most new grads remember clearly – usually a year or two after graduation – when you realise that knowing the theory and feeling confident in the field are not the same thing….
Equine veterinary medicine is not static – and neither is the role of the equine veterinarian. From evolving diagnostic techniques and imaging modalities to advances in pain management, dentistry, ophthalmology, and sports medicine, the knowledge…
When you’re responsible for the professional development of a large veterinary group, continuing education stops being an individual decision and becomes a systems problem. You’re no longer choosing education for one veterinarian with one learning…
Rural and mixed practice veterinary work is not defined by species. It’s defined by responsibility. When you’re working outside metropolitan centres, there is no neat handoff between disciplines. A single day might include a lame…
BVSc (Hons) MANZCVS (Eq Dentistry) CMAVA DICEVO DAVDC (Equine)Founder, The Equine Practice Company Dr. Olivia James is an internationally recognised equine veterinary dental specialist, educator, and founder, with more than two decades of experience across…
Donkeys and mules are increasingly common patients in equine practice, and understanding them is essential for every Equine Veterinarian, yet they remain some of the least well-understood equids in veterinary education. Despite superficial similarities to…
Feed and supplement labels are designed to inspire confidence. Unfortunately, they are also one of the most misunderstood and misleading sources of information in equine nutrition. Veterinarians are increasingly asked to advise on feeds, balancers,…