1-year Masters project for qualified veterinary surgeon: Endurance ride epidemiology

A 1-year Master’s degree in Equine Veterinary Epidemiology (Masters of Veterinary Medicine – MVM) working in an established group is available. You will be part of a well-established University of Glasgow/Fédération Equestre Internationale (FEI) collaboration aimed at better predicting failure to qualify (FTQ) as an outcome during endurance rides. Our group provide evidence-based advice for the FEI, via the FEI Veterinary and Endurance Committees, to reduce the risk of horses ending an endurance ride lame or with metabolic issues.
You will review, collate and analyse loop specific veterinary gate information from FEI endurance events worldwide. The information contained within these forms will be used to identify horses at significantly greater risk of both FTQ lameness and FTQ metabolic outcomes later in the ride.

You will be an independent, self-motivated veterinary surgeon with an interest in research and evidence-based medicine/policy advice. In particular you will be interested in epidemiology/quantitative methods and ideally you will have experience of coding in ‘R’, Matlab or Python etc - or be willing to learn! At the start of the project you will spend a short amount of time reviewing data held at the FEI HQ in Lausanne, Switzerland and you will have the opportunity to present your work to the FEI Veterinary and/or Endurance Committees as well as attending relevant conferences.

Please apply online, noting Professor Parkin as the Principal Investigator and entering the Masters title as listed above in the programme description box of the online application form: www.gla.ac.uk/research/opportunities/howtoapplyforaresearchdegree/

The closing date for applications is the 3rd November 2017 and we aim to fill the position soon thereafter.