Honoring Your Mental Health As a Veterinary Professional
Learn how to safeguard your health and boundaries in the face of burnout and compassion fatigue, build resiliency and contentment, and care for yourself as well as you do your patients.
Maranda Elswick
DVM
Time: 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Raising Resilience: How to Avoid Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, and Moral Distress
What To Expect:
- Define compassion fatigue, moral distress, and occupational burnout and the relationship between these monsters.
- Strategies that if practiced will consistently protect you and your organization from all three.
- An increased sense of self responsibility, self awareness, and self empowerment, and with practice, resilience that is unassailable by anything you experience in this world.
Sarah J. Wooten
DVM, CVJ
Time: 1:40 pm - 3:10 pm
Mental Health Empowerment in the Vet Field
January 28, 2023 @ 12 pm - 3:30 pm ET
Why Attend?
VetCE Virtual events cover everything from detailed medical topics to practice management and other non-medical topics relevant to everyday situations that veterinary professionals deal with.
The VetCE Virtual series of micro-conferences are a convenient alternative to in-person events that are designed to deliver multiple approved RACE and/or CVPM CE credits in a concise, half-day virtual format with three consecutive one-hour presentations. The series not only provides you with the opportunity to benefit from educational sessions presented by expert speakers but also gives you an easy way to learn and earn credits in the comfort of your home or office!
Recordings of the sessions will be available for viewing for 2 weeks following each event for participants to reference. The recordings will also be available to VPN+ members for free after the 2 weeks. Please be advised that we can not issue CE certificates for only viewing the session recordings. Anyone who registers for a VetCE Virtual event but is unable to attend the live sessions will get free access to the VetCE OnDemand courses we create from the recordings on VetMedTeam so you can still get CE credits!
What People are Saying About VetCE
“I really loved attending the VetCE Virtual event. I thought it was perfect as is.”
Tara
Veterinary Assistant
“Continue with the variety and topics that have not been beaten into the ground in previous presentations. The three topics and speakers were very unique…and I have attended more than 1000 hours of CE over the past 40 years.”
Pamela
Veterinarian
Agenda
Speakers
Maranda Elswick
DVM
Maranda Elswick, DVM, graduated in 2015 from Virginia-Maryland College of Veterinary Medicine with an emphasis in small animal general practice and special interests in preventative medicine, hospice care, client communication, and client education. She is a licensed veterinarian in Florida, splitting her time between shelter medicine, general practice, and educational veterinary writing. Dr. Elswick is also founder of The Meowing Vet, LLC, a quirky veterinary web presence with free health articles for pet owners, vet students, and veterinary professionals. An avid traveler and vet med mental health advocate, Dr. Elswick currently resides in Florida with her husband (a veterinary cardiologist) and their dogs and cats.
Sarah J. Wooten
DVM, CVJ
A 2002 graduate of UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, Dr. Sarah Wooten is a well known international speaker in the veterinary and animal health spaces. She has 16 years clinical experience in private practice, and over 10 years experience in public speaking, media work, and writing for a large number of online and print animal health publications, including but not limited to chewy.com, petMD, Vetstreet, Hill’s Pet Nutrition Education Blog, Great Pet Care, Life’s Abundance Educational blog, DVM360 print and online publications, Healthy Pet Magazine, and the Bark. She is also passionate about helping pet parents learn how to care better for their fur friends, and has written thousands of web articles and filmed hundreds of videos about pet care and the human-animal bond. She has appeared on radio, podcasts, and multiple television news broadcasts across the country in her role as a veterinary expert, and has been featured in several magazines in the same role. Dr. Wooten was a member of the Blue Buffalo Veterinary Advisory Board for 3 years, and is on the FearFreeTM Advisory board and the Prized PalsTM Advisory board. Dr. Wooten is also a certified veterinary journalist, a member in good standing of the AVMA. She is also co-creator of the card game ‘Vets Against Insanity’ and co-owns Humans Against Insanity, LLC, a publishing house for all things educational and funny. In her spare time, she can be found skiing, fly fishing, golfing, and paddle boarding.
