Compassion Fatigue 101: What Veterinary Professionals Need to Know

Course overview

Compassion fatigue is quickly becoming a term that members of the veterinary community are becoming familiar with. While the awareness of compassion fatigue is increasing, how to notice, prevent, and overcome the affliction remains a seeming mystery. In this 2-hour course, you will learn strategies, tools, principles, and tactics for preventing compassion fatigue, recognizing it, and overcoming it. This course is intended for veterinary professionals of all roles and will cover the basics of compassion fatigue along with specific strategies for combating compassion fatigue. The first half of the course features mental health professional Dr. Barry Feldman, and the second half of the course is a discussion between Dr. Feldman, Dr. Hawley (DVM), and Renee Machel (veterinary technician). This course is going to provide you with much of what is needed to cultivate and maintain a life and veterinary career that is free of compassion fatigue! If you're passionate about veterinary medicine and if you want to enjoy your career mentally and emotionally then we highly suggest that you take this course. Your ability to understand and prevent compassion fatigue will be directly related to your level of resentment, animosity, and regret about the veterinary profession and your job! By the end of this course, you will feel confident and competent in your ability to recognize and prevent compassion fatigue.