Miss Beth Reilly
BVetMed PGDipVCP PGCertVetEd FHEA MRCVS
Teaching Fellow in Small Ruminant Health and Flock Management
Department: Pathobiology & Population Sciences
Campus: Hawkshead
Beth Reilly graduated from RVC in 2017 and completed both the Cambridge and RVC Junior Clinical Training Scholarships in Production Animals. She worked at Synergy Farm Health before moving to the RVC in 2020, working as a teaching fellow in Clinical Farm Animal Management. She is involved in teaching at both the Hawkshead campus and RVC-SE in Dorset, and is part of the collaborative clinical teaching partnership between Hammond Vets and the RVC.
In 2022, she took on the role of Teaching Fellow in Small Ruminant Health and Flock Management and started an alternative route small ruminant residency with ECSRHM in the autumn of 2023.
Journal Papers:
Middleton, A., Blackie, N., Crilly, J.P., and Reilly, B. (2023) Survey of current UK alpaca husbandry practices: Vaccination, treatment and supplementation. Vet Record. DOI: 10.1002/vetr.3602
Hall, L., Reilly, B. and Blackie, N. (2022) Surveying UK sheep farmers’ vaccination techniques and the impact of vaccination training. The Veterinary Record. DOI:10.1002/vetr.1798
Crilly, J., Wood, M. and Reilly, B. (2022) Such a tease! Production and uses of teaser rams, bucks, boars and bulls. In Practice, 44: 228-238. https://doi.org/10.1002/inpr.204
Crilly, J., Reilly, B., Scott, P. (2022) Digit amputation in small Ruminants Livestock, 27, 2 https://doi.org/10.12968/live.2022.27.2.90
Greville-Heygate, O., Reilly, B. R., & Hughes, K. (2020). Pathology in Practice, Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association, 257(7), 723-725. https://avmajournals.avma.org/view/journals/javma/257/7/javma.257.7.723.xm
Bastos, C.A.P., Thom, W.D., Reilly, B., Batalha, I.L., Burge Rogers, M.L., McCrone, I.S., Faria, N., Powell, J.J. (2020) Robust rapid-setting antibacterial liquid bandages. Sci Rep 10, 15067. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-71586-7
Newsome, R., Reilly, B., Reader, J. (2019) Management of claw horn lesions; a practitioner's guide through the literature, Livestock, Vol. 24, No. 1 https://doi.org/10.12968/live.2019.24.1.6
Conference Proceedings:
Reilly, B. & Mansfield, F (2024). Survey of UK Sheep Farmers and Their Use of Pain Relief in Lambs at Tailing and Castration Sheep Veterinary Society Autumn Conference, Morpeth, Northumberland. 25th September 2024
Reilly, B. & Schielzo, N (2024). How Common is Enrichment in UK Sheep Farming and is it necessary? Sheep Veterinary Society Autumn Conference, Morpeth, Northumberland. 25th September 2024
Reilly, B. & Faiers, I (2024). Clinical Integration to Ruminant Health – bridging the farm animal gap between pre-clinical and clinical teaching. VetEd, Dublin.
McNeil, A., & Reilly, B. (2023). Low-cost sheep model aids students’ learning of injection sites and meat cuts. VetEd, Edinburgh. DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.10843.13600
Crilly, J., Reilly, B., Zahid, N. & Sargion, N. (2023). A survey of anthelmintic resistance on sheep farms in south-east England. Animal-science proceedings. 14 (1), p124.
Faiers, I., Blackie, N., Reilly, B., & Gibson, T. (2022). Castration takes balls! Do Lamb Tailing and Castration models build confidence in students prior to real life practice. VetEd, University of Nottingham. 6-8th July 2022
Reilly, B.. and Blackie, N. (2021). Cattle Art: not just a pretty picture. Veted Conference virtual meeting, University of Surrey, 7th - 9th July 2021.
Reilly, B., Burnell, M. and Bell, N. (2019). Sole depth in Jersey and Cross Bred dairy breeds. 20th International Symposium and 12th International Conference on Lameness in Ruminants (Lameness in Ruminants 2019). Tokyo, Japan.
Reilly, B., Burnell, M. and Bell, N. (2017). How does sole depth vary at set dorsal wall lengths in Holstein Friesians? Cattle Lameness Conference, Worcester, UK. 26th April 2017
Letters:
Reilly, B., Brown-Herman, R. & Baldrey, V. (2023). Analgesia in backyard chickens. The Veterinary Record, 192 (11), p.450
Reilly, B., Warboys, T., Newsome, R., Charlesworth, A., Mouland, C., Swain, J., Barber, B., Siviter, P., Gascoigne, E. and Foden, G., 2019. Looking after interns and residents. The Veterinary record, 184(9), p.286.
Beth teaches across the veterinary medicine course on various aspects of farm animal teaching. She also teaches on two of the tracking rotations, FA1 based in Dorset and FAEQ4 based in Hertfordshire in addition to farm sessions for the Primary Care Clinical Skills core rotation.
She was awarded the individual RVC Jim Bee Educator prize for creative curriculum in 2022.