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Introducing Graduate Confidence Online. The online course dedicated to helping recently graduated veterinary surgeons grow in confidence and thrive in veterinary practice.
Whether you work with companion animals, on farms, with horses or more exotic species this course can help you to feel more comfortable in your new veterinary skin.
If you want to kick your career off with the right mindset. If you want to learn how to prevent overthinking, rumination, self-doubt and negative self talk. If you want to learn the skills to deal with stress and anxiety and follow a framework proven to help prevent burnout, then this unique course is designed especially for you.
Have you doubted your ability to be a good vet because you struggled during your surgical or medical rotations? Perhaps seeing practice was difficult for you either due to a lack of confidence, poor placement or difficulties accessing good mentors due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Perhaps you haven't done as much surgery as you would like, maybe you are worried about going solo or perhaps you have seen your confidence shrink over your first weeks, months or years of being in practice.
Whether you are a final year student, a day one graduate or a vet with 2 or three years under your belt, the confidence to communicate with clients, perform consultations, make medical decisions, deal with employers and colleagues and perform surgery are all vital to a long and fulfilling career. It is these skills that we teach in this unique and ground-breaking course.
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Imagine if you could learn what to do with unhelpful thoughts like ‘what if the wound breaks down’ and 'what if the client complains'. Imagine if you could discover what to do with difficult emotions such as fear, regret, anxiety and guilt. Imagine being able to take the right action even when you feel overwhelmed.
Our participants report feeling excited to go to work in the morning, more confident in job interviews, more relaxed in theatre and relieved at being able to leave work at work by not mentally taking cases home.
They feel calm and prepared for each day in practice.
They are more confident in their abilities as both a vet and a surgeon.
They also tell us they are more confident in their home lives too!
Louise and Jo are uniquely qualified to help you to grow your veterinary confidence. As an experienced veterinary surgeon and CMI certified coach and mentor, Louise brings a unique blend of practical advice and acceptance and commitment coaching.
Jo, an advanced therapist and mindfulness practitioner, is the daughter of a vet who struggled with stress throughout his career. Jo brings her year's of therapy experience and psychology background to offer you real world techniques that make a big difference in your everyday life.
As a team we are committed to changing your life and the veterinary profession as a whole. By helping vets to develop psychological flexibility and confidence, vets can enjoy all aspects of their role and have long, fulfilling, careers.
If you need this help right now, please take your first step to freedom from anxiety and worry. Make the decision to end the pain and discomfort that comes from the feeling that you may not be reach your full potential.
Get the best start to your career.
Confidence coaching is coaching and therapy service dedicated to helping veterinarians improve their surgical, clinical and client communication confidence and actively manage their workplace stress and anxiety.
Vets are skilled professionals and along with other elite performers such as musicians, athletes and performance artists. Vets can experience periods of anxiety associated with performing certain aspects of their role.
Whilst some level of anxiety in veterinary practice is normal. Those who experience high levels of stress, or prolonged anxiety before during and after their working day can benefit from coaching to help them explore the reasons behind this and practical techniques to reduce their stress and increase their confidence.
Veterinary confidence coaching will help you learn and put in place techniques to actively manage your anxiety as it appears. We help vets like you to improve your performance and decrease your feelings of discomfort, dread and overwhelm. Thus helping you to better serve your patients and realise your value to your team.
Our coaches only use proven techniques (evaluated in peer reviewed, randomised control studies) to help reduce performance related anxiety and stress. These same techniques have been proven to increase job satisfaction, career longevity and personal well-being.
Please note: This is a coaching course and no surgical or clinical techniques will be taught. The information provided however will be veterinary environment specific. All techniques taught will be directly applicable to your role as a veterinary surgeon.
I am loving this course. I'm able to do it in my own time yet remain highly motivated by the bitesize lessons, homework and answering questions to help reflect without feeling like a boring forced reflection. I was looking for tools to manage stress, emotions and self inflicted pressure etc in the working context so would also recommend this course to those with surgery worries, or work specific worries! ~ Charlotte M
If you prefer to learn and absorb information at your own pace, then this is the course for you. With this course YOU are in control of the pace of your learning.
With no requirement to join zoom calls or be online at a set time this course works well for those working full time or parents with complex schedules. It is also a great option for those outside of the UK as it means no awkward timetabling to attend zoom calls based on UK timings.
This online course should take 60-90 mins per module and a certificate for 10 hours of CPD will be issued on completion.
You will have access to your course for 2 years after purchase and so you can work through the course as quickly or as slowly as you like. You can re-visit the comprehensive video tutorials and the audio downloads for a refresher any time.
Jo Howarth BA (Hons) Psychology, DABCH, MCAHyp
Dr Louise Littler BVSc MRCVS, PgCert (Coaching & mentoring)
Louise is a veterinary surgeon and CMI certified coach. Jo is an experienced therapist, public speaker and successful wellness trainer.
If you want to start your career confidently, get your career back on track or be a more confident student but don't know where to begin.
We are here to help.
This course is a self-paced course which consists of 8 modules. Each module contains video tutorials, exercises, techniques and downloadable information.
On average each module takes 60-90mins to complete and a certificate for 10 hours of CPD will be issued on completion alongside a reflections worksheet to help you keep your CPD log up to date.
Those who have put our techniques into practice have experienced a greater feeling of control, reduced anxiety, better job satisfaction and improved confidence.
I seriously thought it was just me. That my negative feelings around surgery made me a BAD surgeon. In reality I was doing fine. I just couldn't see it and was making things worse for myself.
The coaching has really changed the way I think and feel. Thanks!
Peter S
I used to feel anxious and like I was failing all the time... Now I still feel butterflies but I see them for what they are. A signal it's time to go to work! Thank you!
Emma H
My anxiety gets better each day. I no longer ruminate on potential outcomes and can discharge patients without the 'what if' feelings that used to plague my evenings.
Katie T
The course includes
Each lesson video tutorial is only 3-10mins long, allowing you to complete the course in bite sized pieces to suit your individual lifestyle and work pattern.
The average time commitment would be 60mins per module plus some additional time to practice the techniques throughout your normal working day. You will have 2 years access to the course and can complete the 10 hours at any time.
We are confident that our course can help you to improve your confidence. That's why we offer a guarantee.
If you complete all of the course and put the techniques into practice for 6 months (this is not an overnight fix) and see no improvement in your performance related anxiety or confidence we will offer further support free of charge or your money back.
Please email us hello@accesscpd.com for guarantee terms and conditions.
**If you are an employer purchasing this for an employee please sign up with their email address or contact us at hello@accesscpd.com after purchase so we can grant your employee exclusive access.**
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