The executive realized some time ago that it is often
very difficult for all members to attend the annual
congress in February. One of the reasons given by a
few members was that it involved a large percentage
of time (4 full working days) away from the practice.
This year we have decided to try a different format.
Deliberately the congress was placed over a weekend.
Please can we have comments on this format. This
year the executive also introduced two other means of
gaining CPD points for members that found it difficult
to attend congresses. SAEVA paid for an equine slot
a several regional congresses. The aim thereof was
to provide “hands on “ equine medicine to SAEVA
members as well as non-saeva members. We also
presented two webinars. One on passports and
certification thereof and another for the Ecod reporting
system . Both webinars had over 175 registrations and
attendances. The webinars were very kindly sponsored
by Zoetis and V-tech. We will certainly be doing more
of the same in the upcoming year.
The above is some of the executives achievements in
the last year. What follows will be some of what we
need to achieve in the upcoming year.
benefit but in the majority of cases it stopped at
the congress. Zoetis is going to sponsor a dinner at
this congress for mentors and mentees. The 2019
students will be assigned/select their mentors at
this function. The executive feels that this is a very
important to provide some guidance and support
to the young veterinarians entering our profession.
As we all know equine has as many low points
as it does high points. It is vitally important that
young members have some support during those
low moments.
As an aside from all this.Daff recently published
“The Veterinary Procedural Notice for African horse
sickness control in South Africa or “AHS VPN” under
the Animal Diseases Act, 1984 (Act No 35 of 84) and
the Animal Diseases Regulations (R.2026 of 1986) “
This is a very important documents and I urge everyone
to read it and make comments to [email protected]
and [email protected] . Saeva will be making an
official comment . if you would like to include any
points please contact me on terry@fourwaysequine.
co.za
Regards and hope to see you all at the congress.
• The constitution. We all know that with time things
become outdated. The executive has undertaken
an extensive review of the SAEVA Constitution.
Unfournately some aspects of our constitution
have become dated over time. At the AGM at
this congress we will introduce several suggested
changes to the constitution. We will keep the
members informed on what these suggested
changes are to be via our communications
channels over the next week or so.
• SAEVA Mentoring Group. A nice new initiative
was started this year thanks to Zoetis. For some
years at the congress students have selected
mentors. In some cases this had a long lasting
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