Features

This article is written by one of the volunteers from the RCVS-funded Professional Conduct (ProfCon) Investigation Support Service, which provides emotional support to those going through our concerns investigation and disciplinary process.

This feature was first published in Vet Record on 20 January 2023 as part of a series of articles to provide more details of the forthcoming changes to our policies on extramural studies. In this first article, RCVS Director of Education Linda Prescott-Clements sets out the case for reform and how the overall student experience should be improved by it.

This month’s Standards & Advice update details changes we’ve made to our supporting guidance to the Code on client confidentiality (Chapter 14) as well as changes to the both the Code supporting guidance, and the Practice Standards Scheme guidance on the safe use and storage of the barbiturate quinalbarbitone.

The RCVS Academy is a free, digital learning platform for the veterinary professions launched in June 2022. It provides a wide range of courses in multiple areas such as CPD, ownership disputes, client communication and VetGDP Adviser training.

Update on the fact ethics review is now required for clinical veterinary research in practice.

The speeches given by RCVS Director of Veterinary Nursing Julie Dugmore and Chair of RCVS Veterinary Nurses Council Matthew Rendle at the Diamond Jubilee Evening on Friday 19 August 2022 at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

A July 2022 update from the RCVS Standards & Advice Team.

The address from RCVS Chief Executive Officer Lizzie Lockett at Royal College Day 2022

The address from Melissa Donald as the incoming RCVS President for 2022-23 at Royal College Day 2022.

The address given at Royal College Day 2022 by Kate Richards, outgoing RCVS President for 2021-22.