ALTM330-0317: Towards a Sustainable Clinical Career: The Neuroscience of Clinicianship
The lectures for this course will be presented in an audio format.
Enrollment is closed.
Presenter: Michele Gaspar, DVM, DABVP (Feline Practice), MA, LPC
Course Open: March 12-April 19, 2017
Real Time Sessions (RTS): Sundays, March 19, 26, April 2 and 9, 2017; 7:00-9:00 pm ET (USA)
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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 presenters 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
intermediate course is suitable for new/recent graduates
and experienced veterinarians who are interested in understanding and utilizing
current neuroscience as it relates to improved, sustainable and ultimately
enjoyable clinical practice.
No previous experience with mindfulness, meditation or coursework neuroscience
is necessary to participate and benefit from this course.
VIN CE Course: Open to veterinarians.
This course is approved by RACE for veterinarians. (RACE 22-28480)
Course Information:
This course is designed to address core skills that are critically necessary
for sustainable and effective clinical practice.
These include : Self-observation/mindfulness; empathy;
resilience/self-compassion/boundaries; and attentiveness.
Until recently, these have been erroneously considered as unimportant
"soft skills" that are beyond the scope of traditional veterinary medical education.
However, they are increasingly recognized as essential in enabling a clinician
to flourish in his or her professional and personal life.
Automaticity; the tendency to personalize professional and personal encounters;
and the inability to work with and accept our inherent fallibility
are significant risk factors for burnout among veterinary professionals.
This course will provide skills necessary to engage with clinical practice in healthier ways.
Week 1 (Real Time Session March 19, 2017):
Mindfulness and Clinicianship
Presenter: Michele Gaspar, DVM, DABVP (Feline Practice), MA, LPC
Format: Audio
Objectives: Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to
- understand clinicianship, those qualities that are essential for the practice
of the science and art of medicine.
- define mindfulness, based on current neuroscience, and understand its importance in clinicianship.
- discuss current neuroscience research that underscores
the necessity for developing attentiveness, awareness and focus
and understand how neuroplasticity can help clinicians achieve these qualities.
- develop a personal practice of mindfulness that allows for attentiveness and focus.
Week 2 (Real Time Session March 26, 2017):
Empathy/Boundaries/Self-Compassion
Presenter: Michele Gaspar, DVM, DABVP (Feline Practice), MA, LPC
Format: Audio
Objectives: Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to
- develop a definition of empathy and know how empathy differs from sympathy and pity.
- understand empathic failures, how they occur and how they can be repaired.
- understand the necessity for healthy boundaries and begin to develop
them in one's professional and personal lives.
- define and recognize rigid and fluid boundaries, the advantages and disadvantages
of each and how they positively and negatively impact professional
and personal relationships.
- define resilience and understand the neuroscience that supports its development.
- understand the importance of self-compassion, rather than self-esteem,
as critical for sustained clinical practice.
Week 3 (Real Time Session April 2, 2017):
Developing Self-Observation: Working with Ourselves and Others
Presenter: Michele Gaspar, DVM, DABVP (Feline Practice), MA, LPC
Format: Audio
Objectives: Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to
- define transference and countertransference and how these impact
professional and personal relationships.
- understand object relations and how it can be useful in understanding
professional and personal interactions.
- understand the concept of Winnicott's "good enough mother" and how that
theory impacts self-understanding.
- define Early Maladaptive Schemas (EMS) and understand how our own serve as
challenges and opportunities for clinical practice.
Week 4 (Real Time Session April 9, 2017):
Putting It Altogether: Avoiding Boredom and Developing a Personal Plan for Clinicianship
Presenter: Michele Gaspar, DVM, DABVP (Feline Practice), MA, LPC
Format: Audio
Objectives: Upon completion of this session, the participant should be able to
- understand the multiple skills that are necessary for clinicianship
and one's own challenges with regards to them.
- develop sustainable self-care, based on daily self-observation,
that will allow the participant to avoid common pitfalls of practice,
avoid burnout and engage in practice from one's healthiest qualities.
- identify available resources for continued enhancement of clinicianship.
- understand the normalcy of boredom and identify strategies that
allow one to work through it and sustain a practice career.
Successful completion (scoring 80% or better) on the end-of-course test is required
to earn a certificate of completion for the course.
To learn more about the requirements for earning a CE certificate, please refer to
Receiving Your CE Credit and Course Completion Certificate.
Course Materials: Course materials will be available
in the course library prior to each Real Time Session.
Required Textbooks:
The following books will be used throughout the course
and are available online in both digital and hardcover editions.
Each participant is responsible for purchasing these texts
prior to the first real time session.
- Cal Newport (2016).
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World. Grand Central Publishing.
ISBN-13: 978-1455586691
This text can be purchased from an online bookstore such as
Barnes and Noble
or
Amazon.com.
- Ronald Epstein (2017).
Attending: Medicine, Mindfulness and Humanity. Scribner.
ISBN-13: 978-1501121715
This text will be published January 24, 2017.
You can pre-order your copy at an online bookstore such as
Barnes and Noble
or
Amazon.com.
- Saki Santorelli (1999). Heal Thy Self: Lessons on Mindfulness in Medicine. Harmony.
ISBN-13: 978-0609603857
This text can be purchased from an online bookstore such as
Barnes and Noble
or
Amazon.com.
About the Presenter:
Michele Gaspar is a veterinarian and psychotherapist.
In addition to her psychotherapy practice, she is a member of Vets4Vets, a free service
of the VIN Foundation that helps colleagues with personal and professional issues;
facilitates "Brilliant Sanity: Mindfulness Meditation for Veterinarians", offered through VIN;
and is a consultant in VIN's Feline Internal Medicine Folder.
Dr. Gaspar has lectured nationally on psychosocial issues in veterinary medicine
and is a first-year analytic candidate at the Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis.
She is a 1994 graduate of the University of Wisconsin School of Veterinary Medicine
and received her MA in pastoral counseling from Loyola University/Chicago in 2012.
Total CE Credit: 8
Tuition: Member $184 ($166 early bird special if enrolled by February 26, 2017)
Non-Member $292 ($263 early bird special if enrolled by February 26, 2017)
Prices are listed in US dollars.
*To ensure participants are ready and prepared for classes,
enrollment will close on on March 19, 2017 at 5 pm ET (USA)
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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- For further assistance call 800-846-0028 ext. 797 or email
CEonVIN@vin.com.
Please include the course title, your full name, and contact information in your correspondence.
"This program (22-28480) is approved by the AAVSB RACE to offer a
total of 8 CE Credits, with a maximum of 8 CE Credits being available to any individual veterinarian.
This RACE approval is for the subject matter categories of:
Non-Scientific-Practice Management/Professional Development
using the delivery method of Interactive-Distance: (Web-based, Teleconference or Audio-Conference).
This approval is valid in jurisdictions which recognize AAVSB RACE; however, participants are
responsible for ascertaining each board's CE requirements."
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 office 800-846-0028 ext. 797
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 office at 800-846-0028 ext. 797.
*For more information on VIN's upcoming CE courses, check the
VIN Course Catalog.
Katherine James, DVM, PhD, DACVIM (SAIM)
VIN Education Coordinator
VIN CE Services:
CEonVIN@vin.com
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