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RVC image wins Wellcome Image Awards
Wellcome Images is the world’s leading resource for medical imagery, with themes extending from medical and social history to contemporary healthcare, biomedical science and clinical medicine.
The overall winner of this year’s Wellcome Image Awards was an image of
a preserved uterus from
a New Forest pony with
the developing foetus
still attached (left). The photograph, taken by Michael Frank, a commercial photographer, is of a 40-year-old specimen from the Lanyon Anatomy Museum at the RVC. This is part of
a project between Michael and Nick Short, Head of
the RVC’s eMedia Unit, to bring new perspectives to a selection of specimens in the Lanyon Anatomy Museum.
The winning image has gone on display in science centres and public galleries around the world.
Picture Editor of BBC Focus magazine, James Cutmore, who was a member of the judging panel, said: “As far as standout images go, the image of the horse’s uterus with the foetus still inside was incredible and just sticks in my mind. It evokes many different emotions at once. It’s fascinating, sad, macabre, almost brutal. Yet the subject is also delicate, detailed and beautiful. The image shows us a large and magni cent creature reduced to this
sad, fragile and half-formed creation, which I nd very humbling.”
RVC pathology trainees pass ACVP General Pathology exams
Six RVC trainees (residents) have passed the General Pathology examination that forms the rst part of the Diploma quali cation of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists (ACVP).
The ACVP has been setting the standard
in veterinary pathology through rigorous examination and certi cation since 1949. The pathology examination process is one of the most challenging postgraduate veterinary quali cations in the world and until recently
it was unusual for veterinary surgeons who had not trained in North America to obtain the quali cation. Since 2006 the RVC Pathology Group, led by Professor Ken Smith, has
been developing and applying a strategy
to train veterinary graduates to achieve this prestigious goal. That strategy has involved College investment as well as funding from a variety of external sources including the horse racing industry, the pharmaceutical industry, commercial diagnostic laboratories, welfare charities and the Animal and Plant Health Agency, APHA.
The RVC’s pathology training strategy to nurture the leaders of veterinary pathology
in the 21st century is continuing to go from strength to strength and this year has produced the largest number of specialist pathology examination passes in the RVC’s long history.
Congratulations to our pathology trainees: Becca Terry (anatomic pathology: funded by The Wellcome Trust), Clare Muir (anatomic pathology: funded by Bridge Pathology), Alex Stoll (anatomic pathology: funded by the RVC), Sam Beck (anatomic pathology: co-funded by APHA and the RVC), Emma Holmes (clinical pathology: funded by the RVC) and Laureen Peters (clinical pathology: funded by the RVC).
Dr Simon Priestnall, Director of the Anatomic Pathology Residency Programme, said: “The RVC Pathology Group is incredibly proud of our trainees’ outstanding success - they are the next generation of veterinary pathologists”.