A new scheme is being introduced to help young veterinary graduates connect with other graduates across the UK. Vet Grad is an informal way for graduates to socialise and support one another. Moving to a completely new area into a stressful job with often unsocial hours can be crippling for some new graduates. If nothing else, this scheme should make the transition from student to practicising vet a little easier.

Vet Grad will be formally announced at the next BEVA Congress in September.

More information can be gleaned from the BEVA website.

Citing saturation in the veterinary profession, measures have been passed to peer review veterinary foreign AVMA accreditation. Dr. Katherine Knutson, a Minnesota delegate was quoted: ‘We are not saying it out loud, but some believe there are too many veterinarians.’

The peer review will consider whether AVMA foreign accreditation benefits the public at large and the expense behind the process. Full article from DVM360 can be found here.