Welcome, Fear Free veterinary professionals! This is where you can earn additional Fear Free CE hours by taking our complimentary RACE-approved courses. Right now, we are hard at work developing some amazing new courses, which will launch in regular intervals and will be available exclusively to you as a benefit of your active membership.
Our new website and Education Portal are coming July 14. Be sure to complete in-progress coursework by July 9th at 4:59 p.m. MT / 6:59 p.m. ET to ensure it transfers to the new system. Memberships and renewal dates remain unaffected.
Additional Courses Veterinary Professionals
Veterinary Certification Program
- Reduce or remove anxiety triggers
- Improve safety for the veterinary team
- Increase compliance
Using Distractions: Fear Free Do’s and Dont’s
- Learn types of distractions and when to use
- Learn when and why not to use distractions
- See examples in the moment
Stress, Health & Behavior
- Stress Impacts, Coritsol, and Allostasis
- How Pain Affects Behavior
- The Microbiome and Behavior
Eliminating Barriers to Care
- Understand the stop-treatment threshold
- Learn the vet’s role in cost-of-care education
- Understand why quality pet insurance can help
Fear Free for Humans
- Understand how perfectionism affects mental health
- Create simple scripts to practice making generous assumptions
- Practice healthful communication with coworkers and clients
The Neurobiology of Toxic Stress
- Learn about the different types of stress
- Understand the effects of toxic stress and trauma
- Find out how to harness the power of agency
Addressing Fear & Aggression in Avian Patients
- Use constructional approach
- Learn from case studies
- Gain practical implementation
Fear Free for Relief Vets
- How to practice Fear Free as a Relief Vet
- Emergency and shelter situations
- How to pass on Fear Free after you leave
Veterinary Certification Program – Avian
- Fear Free visits for untrained birds
- Recognizing stress in birds
- Staff and client education
Veterinary Certification Program – Equine
- Recognize stress to improve care
- Reduce or remove equine anxiety triggers
- Increase comfort during travel
Next Level Nail Trims: Cooperative Care Behaviors
- Demonstrate communication cues
- Respond and recognize consent cues
- Train a variety of cooperative care behaviors
Finesse the Chin Rest: The Basics and Beyond for Cooperative Care
- Learn the training steps
- Discover on-the-job applications
- Work up to advanced-level distractions
Veterinary Professional Certification Course | Level 3
- Advanced animal handling techniques
- Preventive behavior services
- Feline & canine development
Veterinary Professional Certification Course | Level 2
- Advanced animal handling techniques
- In-hospital care
- Client communication
Fear Free CSR: How You Can Help Prepare Pet Owners
- The CSRs Role in Pre-Visit
- Creating the Fear Free Environment
- How to “Speak Fear Free” to Clients
The Path to a Great Bath
- Overview of Fear Free Bathing and Positive Reinforcement
- Introduction to the Tub
- Modifying the Environment for Success
Pain Management and Emergency Care
- Aid your clients in recognizing and understanding their pet’s pain
- See how you can implement Fear Free in your emergency care
A Close Look at Canine Enrichment: What, Why, and How?
- Explore enrichment using all the senses
- Identifying the right balance
- Enrichment for dogs in various scenarios
The Impact of Pain
- Define, classify, and and identify pain from different sources
- Impact on the Human-Animal bond
- Modern analgesic therapies
Alone in the Wilderness
- Understand the dynamics of change
- Implement change in your practice
- Address common push-back topics
- Thrive where you’re planted or transplant to a new garden
Quantifying Pain: Pain Scales and Scoring Systems
- Fundamentals in measurement
- Scaling and scoring of pain
- Treating patients’ pain and suffering more effectively
Fear Free Dermatology
- Classical Conditioning and Conditioned Emotional Responses
- The Ears: Exams and Procedures
- The Skin: Diagnostic Tests and Procedures
- Bathing: At Home and In Clinic
Analgesic Medications and the Pain Pathway
- Maximizing the efficacy of your analgesic protocols
- How & where core and adjunctive medications work
- Importance of multimodal analgesia
Emergency and Critical Care
- Unique challenges & solutions for the ER
- What a Fear Free ICU looks, smells & sounds like
- Why reducing FAS in critical patients is a need and not a want
The Business of Pain Management
- Begin or increase your pain management business
- Skills to consider learning
- Ways to acquire new pain patients
Analgesic Protocols for Acute Pain – Case-Based
- Importance of analgesic protocols
- Protocols for elective soft-tissue surgery & dentistry
- Protocols for urgent surgery, trauma & medical conditions
Noise Aversion and Nutraceuticals and Behavioral Medicine
- Diagnosing noise aversion
- Providing treatment
- Benefits of nutraceuticals in behavioral therapy
Effects and Management of Chronic Pain
- Causes & effects of chronic pain
- Case studies
- Alternative & complementary treatment
Fear Free Dentistry and In-Clinic Sedation
- Importance of dental care
- Physiological & medical impacts of stress
- Benefits of implementing sedation
Fear Free Companion Animal Euthanasia Course
- Create a meaningful, low-stress experience
- Uses of pre-euthanasia sedation & anesthesia
- Preventing & alleviating compassion fatigue
The Vital Role of Client Services Representatives
- Communicating with clients
- Creating a welcoming experience
- Advising clients on transporting pets
Feline Destructive Scratching Solutions
- Natural functions scratching serves for cats
- Common owner responses & the problems with them
- Safe, effective alternatives to declawing
Fear Free Doesn’t Cost – It Pay$
- Taking client loyalty to the next level
- Evaluating your financial investment
- How Fear Free positively affect your bottom line
Behavior is Medicine; Fear Free is Better Medicine
- Science behind fear, anxiety & stress
- How Fear Free is better medicine
- Sedation protocols
Developing the Fear Free Plan of Action for Patient Care
- Body language knowledge
- Touch Gradient, Considerate Approach & Gentle Control
- Fear Free procedures
Success! Proven Fear Free Strategies
- Making clients & patients happier & healthier
- Case studies
- Best practices
Fear Free Scheduling | Marketing Your Certification Online
- Importance of scheduling in creating a Fear Free visit
- What successful scheduling looks like
- How to market your certification
Implementing Fear Free Into Your Practice
- Engaging your team
- Process for small & large practices
- Tactics & techniques that you can start using right away
Pre-Anesthesia Feeding, ER, Critical Care & Internal Medicine
- New research on pre-anesthesia practices & procedures
- Issues in the day-to-day practices of emergency, critical care & internal medicine
- How Fear Free can address these issues
The Role of Technicians, Treats and More in Fear Free
- How technicians play a role in the Fear Free process
- The right use of treats
- The treat ladder’s role in creating a Fear Free visit
Welcome to the Module 8: An Implementation Guide for Leaders
- Leadership, strategic planning & metrics
- Human resources & operations
- Marketing your Fear Free certification
Podcast CE: Case Studies in Feline and Canine Fear Free Visits
- What Fear Free means from a client’s perspective
- Dakota the Dog’s experience
- Pooka the Cat’s experience
Fear Free Nail Trims: Trimming Away the Terror
- Incorporate Gentle Control, Considerate Approach and touch gradient into nail care
- Pros and cons of common nail trim tools
- Describe how and when, to use food distractions or switch to DS-CC for nail trims
Fear Free Injections for Equine Patients
- The role of injection in equine medicine
- Setting up successful injection training
- Training technique options
