ALTM302-1014: The Other Side of Veterinary Medicine: Healthy Clinicians Make Better Practitioners Module II
The lectures for this course will be presented in a predominantly audio format.
Please come prepared to listen.

Enrollment is closed.

Instructor(s):
Michele Gaspar, DVM, MA
Sarah Kallick, Psy.D.
Ann Raney, LCSW
Megan Roekle, Psy.D.
Chris Adrian, MD, M.Div.
Carl Bello, DVM, MA

Course Open: October 6-November 27, 2014
Real Time Sessions (RTS): Mondays, October 13, 20, 27, November 3, 10, and 17, 2014; 8:00-10:00 pm ET (USA)
Course RTS Times in Your Area: World Clock Converter

Practice Sessions: In order to prepare you for a successful experience in your CE course, we request you attend a Practice Session prior to the first Real Time Session. Please arrive promptly at the start time; each Practice Session is up to 1 hour in length. For more information, please visit the CE Practice Area.

*The instructors for this course will be using audio which will require you to have a headset or speakers to listen. If you have any concerns regarding your computer's audio capabilities, please be sure to attend one of the Practice Sessions.

Level and Prerequisites: This basic course will be open to veterinarians and veterinary staff who have a desire to learn new ways of increasing one's physical and psychosocial health, as well as that of the veterinary hospital team. There are no academic requirements. Participants should be sufficiently committed to improving body/mind health, so that they actively engage in assigned readings, classroom discussions and on the course message boards.
VIN CE Course: Open to veterinarians and veterinary staff. This course has been submitted to VHMA for CVPM credits. This course has been approved by RACE for veterinarians and veterinary technicians. The Veterinary Information Network (VIN) is RACE Provider #22.

Course Description:
The second of two modules in this unique and ground-breaking course that contains topics not traditionally covered in veterinary curriculums or other continuing education offerings. The course, which features a number of instructors from disciplines outside of veterinary medicine, is designed to help clinicians, from new graduates to those about to enter retirement, learn how to take better care of themselves physically and emotionally. It blends information from a variety of disciplines, including human nutrition, sleep and exercise physiology, psychology and other social sciences into a unified whole. The course premise is that healthy clinicians are better able to provide excellent patient care and client service. While it is not a substitute for personal medical care or psychotherapy, the course seeks to enhance information and insight and provide new perspectives and recommendations on issues common to clinical practice. These include compassion fatigue, burnout, isolationism, perfectionism, working with chronic illnesses and death of patients, client engagement and loss of control. Those taking this course can look forward to being intellectually challenged in exciting ways and develop new tools for dealing with physical and psychosocial stressors.

This course consists of six (6) 2-hour Real Time Sessions and interactive message board discussions.

To learn more about the requirements for earning a CE certificate, please refer to Receiving Your CE Credit and Course Completion Certificate.

*The lecture portion of this course will be an audio presentation, please be prepared to listen.

Upon completion of this course, the participant should be able to

• enhance client interactions by using the concepts of hospitality and inter-subjectivity in daily encounters.
• recognize undesirable personal cognitive patterns, such as perfectionism and unyielding standards, which remove the joy from clinical practice, and develop effective strategies to counter them.
• understand how shame and guilt can undermine a clinician's ability to provide clinical care and develop a personal program to reduce their negative effects.
• recognize chronic thought processes/rumination and learn techniques to avoid them.
• use fiction and other writing to develop and expand clinical focus and attention.
• develop an enhanced ability to deal with chronic illness and death of patients, client reactions and one's own sense of clinical accomplishment.

Course Materials: Course materials will be available in the course library prior to each Real Time Session.
Required Textbook(s): There is no required textbook for this course.
However, participants are expected to complete a list of online reading assignments provided by the instructors in advance of each Real Time Session.

About the Instructors:
Chris Adrian, MD, MFA, M.Div. is a pediatric oncologist in Boston and a novelist ("Gob's Grief;" "The Children's Hospital;" and "The Great Night"). His interests include the psychosocial aspects of medical care and the challenges of caring for patients with chronic and terminal diseases.

Carl Bello has a DVM from Oklahoma State University and Master of Arts in Counseling Psychology, Seattle School of Theology and Psychology. He is currently doing relief work in companion animal medicine/surgery in Seattle, WA. As a counselor/veterinarian, Dr. Bello is very interested in helping medical professionals (especially veterinarians) navigate the many emotional and relational challenges particular to our work as doctors.

Michele Gaspar is a VIN consultant (Feline Internal Medicine Folder) and has a Master's in pastoral counseling from Loyola University/Chicago. She has had a personal mindfulness meditation practice for 13 years and completed the certificate program in Mindfulness and Psychotherapy from the Institute of Meditation and Psychotherapy in Newton, MA. She is a member of Ancient Dragon Gate Zen Center in Chicago. Michele is currently completing the two-year certificate program in adult psychoanalytic psychotherapy through the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis and is a part-time staff therapist at the C. G. Jung Center in Evanston, Illinois. Her interests include the use of meditation as an antidote to professional burnout, compassion fatigue and stress. Michele has lectured on mindfulness meditation to veterinarians, veterinary support staff, and shelter personnel.

Sarah Kallick has been practicing psychotherapy for 21 years, using an eclectic approach, including psychodynamic, developmental, cognitive, behavioral, intersubjective, and eastern mindfulness concepts to empower clients and increase their self-trust through a nonjudgmental exploration of thoughts and feelings. Dr. Kallick's specialties include applications of Mindfulness to psychotherapy, process group therapy, marital therapy utilizing concepts of Imago Therapy and Schema Therapy, women's issues, integration of psychology and spirituality, and treatment of anxiety, depression, grief and loss, and life transitions. She has been active for years in the Illinois Group Psychotherapy Society where she is currently both President Elect and Co-Chair of the Program and Training Committee. Dr. Kallick has been married for 25 years and has two young children who provide her constant opportunity for learning and growth.

Ann Raney, LCSW is the Chief Executive Office of Turning Point Behavioral Health Care Center in Skokie, IL and a faculty member of the School of Social Service Administration at the University of Chicago. Her professional interests include in relational therapy, spirituality and mindfulness.

Meghan Roekle is a clinical psychologist who practices Integrative Psychotherapy. She has a doctorate in clinical psychology and has worked with individuals, families, children, and groups with a wide variety of presenting issues, including anxiety, depression, trauma, loss, relationship issues, and existential/spiritual concerns. Dr. Roekle received her PsyD from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology, where she is currently on faculty, teaching seminars on the practice of psychotherapy, as well as advising and research courses.

Course Outline:
Week 1 (Real Time Session October 13): Thinking About What Happens "In The Room"
Instructor(s): Ann Raney, LCSW
Content:

• What is hospitality and why does it matter in health care encounters?
• How to develop healthy client encounters and repair less-than-optimal ones.
• Listening to body and mental clues to inform our clinical encounters.

Week 2 (Real Time Session October 20): Resilience and boundaries in clinical practice
Instructor(s): Michele Gaspar, DVM, MA
Content:

• Understanding how our personal histories of attachment impact clinical practice and decision making.
• Techniques that preserve appropriate attachment and establish healthy boundaries with clients, staff and work environments.
• Developing patterns of resilience and equanimity that help to forestall burnout and compassion fatigue.

Week 3 (Real Time Session October 27): Shame and Isolation
Instructor(s): Carl Bello, DVM, MA
Content:

• Introduction
• Impact of Shame (why is it so important?).
• Shame Defined (theories, origins, shame vs. guilt).
• Responses to Shame (dysfunctional avoidance behaviors and their significance).
• Assessing Shame (understanding my individual shame proneness).
• Developing Shame Resilience (developing skills to work with it in professional life).

Week 4 (Real Time Session November 3): What Is, Is: Undoing the thoughts that create stress
Instructor(s): Megan Roekle, Psy. D.
Content:

• All stress is an argument with what is
• These arguments are mental images, thoughts, beliefs, expectations, and stories from the past--about our clients, our patients, ourselves, etc.
• When we "wake up" from our thoughts we can meet our clients and patients more fully and openly.
• Work, without old thinking, naturally becomes more loving, effective and improvisational.

Week 5 (Real Time Session November 10): Working Through Maladaptive Schemas
Instructor(s): Sarah Kallick, Psy.D. CGP
Content:

• Defining and understanding Schemas and Amygdala Hijacks
• How Schemas Function
• Unrelenting Standards, Self-Sacrificing and Defectiveness Schemas in High Achievers
• How Mindfulness can help us free ourselves from Schemas

Week 6 (Real Time Session November 17): How Do We Find Meaning in Working with Patients' Chronic and Terminal Diseases?
Instructor(s): Chris Adrian, MD, M.Div.
Content:

• The psychosocial challenges to health care providers
• Is there meaning in suffering?
• Psychosocial implications of working with chronically and terminally ill patients and their families.

CE Credits: 12

Tuition: Member $252 ($227 early bird special if enrolled by September 25, 2014)
Non-Member $374 ($337 early bird special if enrolled by September 25, 2014)

*Enroll in both modules (ALTM301-0914) and (ALTM302-1014) by September 15, 2014 and receive a discounted rate: Member $321 Non-Member $497

*To ensure participants are ready and prepared for classes, enrollment will close at 5 pm ET on October 13, 2014 or when the maximum number of participants is reached.
*For more information on how online CE works, see the Participant Resource Center.

To Enroll:
Enrollment is closed.

1. Enrollment qualifications: VIN CE courses are open to VIN member and non-member veterinarians. Veterinarians enrolling in a VSPN CE course must be a VIN member. Veterinary support staff must be a VSPN member to enroll in a VSPN CE or a VIN CE course open to VSPN member enrollment.
2. Each enrollee must be able to receive emails from @vspn.org and @vin.com addresses. Email is our major form of communication with participants; personal emails are highly recommended rather than clinic/hospital email addresses.
3. Each person is individually responsible for his/her own registration. To ensure that all information received is secure and correct, please do not enroll for a course on behalf of another individual.
4. For further assistance call 1-800-700-INFO (4636) or email CEonVIN@vin.com. Please include the course title, your full name, and contact information in your correspondence.

*Note: "This course is approved for 12 continuing education credits in jurisdictions which recognize AAVSB RACE approval; however participants should be aware that some boards have limitations on the number of hours accepted in certain categories and/or restrictions on certain methods of delivery of continuing education." Call VSPN/VIN CE at 1-800-700-4636 for further information. (Attendees are encouraged to check with their licensing jurisdiction(s) for information regarding recognition by their board).

Course withdrawal and refund policy: A complete refund of the paid course price will be issued when your withdrawal request is received prior to the listed start date of the course. If you wish to withdraw after the start date please contact the VIN/VSPN office 1-800-700-INFO (4636) to discuss eligibility for a pro-rated refund.
* Note: To ensure rapid handling of your request for withdrawal, we recommend that you call the VIN/VSPN office at 1-800-700-INFO (4636).

*For more information on VIN's upcoming CE courses, check the VIN Course Catalog.

The CE team:

Katherine James, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (SAIM)
VIN Education Coordinator

VIN CE Services: CEonVIN@vin.com
800-846-0028 or 530-756-4881; ext. 797
or direct line to VIN/VSPN from the United Kingdom: 01452226154

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