RCVS Knowledge has announced the official launch of Veterinary Evidence – a new resource designed to unite practitioners interested in promoting and using the principles of evidence-based veterinary medicine (EBVM) within practice.
Veterinary Evidence – which is supported by the RCVS – represents RCVS Knowledge’s wider mission statement of providing the veterinary community with practice relevant, evidence-based information resources. Papers and publications are now available for use, completely open-access.
Veterinary Evidence aims to become the go-to portal for evidence-based veterinary information, promoting and publishing peer-reviewed papers alongside discussion of EBVM through opinion, clinical and methodological articles.
The site will host a wide range of material – from randomised controlled trials to case studies, Knowledge Summaries and interviews. The content is designed to educate readers in research techniques, responding to the desire amongst many veterinary professionals to become involved in effective practice-based research – including critical appraisal and clinical audit.
Jacqui Molyneux, Chair of the RCVS Knowledge Board of Trustees said: "As a practising veterinary surgeon I, along with many others, recognise the emerging importance of evidence-based veterinary medicine and I believe it will become more and more important as time goes on. We all wish to do the best for our patients but how do we find out what the current ‘best’ is? That’s where this portal will become so useful; collecting and publishing articles that directly help practising vets and nurses to answer that question."
Bradley Viner, the President of the RCVS and a Trustee of RCVS Knowledge, said: "The College was very happy to support our charity partners at RCVS Knowledge in launching this excellent new resource which will be relevant to all veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses in clinical practice. Furthermore, clinical governance is now firmly established as an important principle in the Code of Professional Conducts for both professions and so, by encouraging practitioners to undergo a continuing process of reflection, analysis and improvement, Veterinary Evidence will also be helping them fulfil their professional responsibilities."
Access the full site at: www.veterinaryevidence.org
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'reflection, analysis and improvement'
What a joke!
No reflection, no analysis, no improvement to the bogus system currently masquerading as vet 'science'.
At core there's the unshakeable assumption that domestic carnivores can be fed from the can and packet with no short or long term health impairment.
Next there's the absurd assumption that the can and packet contains superior fare to the wild natural reference diet.
Then there's the massive fraud that brand name Hill's, Iams, Royal Canin are superior to all other junk.
Then there's the vicious assumption that not only is junk superior, but that the natural standard is in fact 'harmful'.
Of course since junk food appears at every twist and turn in the vet orthodoxy, ipso facto, at every turn the vet 'science' is bogus.
To make matters worse, there's a stoopid assumption that the vet reductionist methodology allows vets to identify, diagnose and treat ill health. A further set of stooopid assumptions leads practitioners to believe the information derived from blunt instruments -- stethoscopes, xray machines, thermometers, etc -- can yield useful information. (At the end stage they may.)
Bah humbug. Wot's before your eyes, up your nose and at your fingertips tells infinitely more than all the bogus vet guff piled high.
Stop the junk food, pull the bad teeth, fix the obesity and watch the pets become 'like kittens/puppies' again.
What do the ridiculous deckchair attendants have to say about that, I wonder?