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Originally posted by Jeremy
I just sent the following to Mr. Wiklund at the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons:
I have just read my RCVS news and think you may still be consulting on specialism.
Sorry,I think you got ‘advanced’ practitioner wrong as it’s likely to be offensive to the 98% of the vets on the register who are not regarded as ‘advanced’ and likely to be misinterpreted by the general public as suggesting that the majority of practising vets are in some way inferior.
I don’t think you should be wasting much time on this 2% as I think you have more important things to do. Like for example enabling 10,000 veterinary nurses to protect their title and be able to prescribe common NFA-VPS medicines independently by requesting of VMD that they should be acknowledged in the VMRs that they are RQPs (responsible qualified persons).
There is nothing much wrong with the term “recognised specialist” as long as it does not imply that those members of the College who have achieved recognition in some specialist sector by some other means cannot then describe themselves as recognised or specialised. I.e. I don’t think you need to change anything other than to provide a plain English explanation on the RCVS website of what the post-nominals mean for those who need to see them and have the enthusiasmto look.
However,if you must change the title then I would suggest you choose RCVS Accredited Specialist as it does not imply that somebody who has achieved recognition by some other means has done anything wrong, or make it easy for such an inference to be made; it just “does what it says on the tin.”
And I still don’t think you should be wasting much time on this. There are 10,000 veterinary nurses on the register who could be doing more for veterinary practice and animal welfare than they are today. I think you should get on with protecting the title veterinary nurse and enabling these people to function as RQPs right now for the benefit of veterinary practice generally,and therefore for the benefit of animal welfare.
I have just read my RCVS news and think you may still be consulting on specialism.
Sorry,I think you got ‘advanced’ practitioner wrong as it’s likely to be offensive to the 98% of the vets on the register who are not regarded as ‘advanced’ and likely to be misinterpreted by the general public as suggesting that the majority of practising vets are in some way inferior.
I don’t think you should be wasting much time on this 2% as I think you have more important things to do. Like for example enabling 10,000 veterinary nurses to protect their title and be able to prescribe common NFA-VPS medicines independently by requesting of VMD that they should be acknowledged in the VMRs that they are RQPs (responsible qualified persons).
There is nothing much wrong with the term “recognised specialist” as long as it does not imply that those members of the College who have achieved recognition in some specialist sector by some other means cannot then describe themselves as recognised or specialised. I.e. I don’t think you need to change anything other than to provide a plain English explanation on the RCVS website of what the post-nominals mean for those who need to see them and have the enthusiasmto look.
However,if you must change the title then I would suggest you choose RCVS Accredited Specialist as it does not imply that somebody who has achieved recognition by some other means has done anything wrong, or make it easy for such an inference to be made; it just “does what it says on the tin.”
And I still don’t think you should be wasting much time on this. There are 10,000 veterinary nurses on the register who could be doing more for veterinary practice and animal welfare than they are today. I think you should get on with protecting the title veterinary nurse and enabling these people to function as RQPs right now for the benefit of veterinary practice generally,and therefore for the benefit of animal welfare.
There's a thread about that here.