Fear Free®: A Transformative Initiative for Veterinary Professionals
As veterinary professionals, we understand the emotional demand of the veterinary field. We know the impact that stress and anxiety can have on our patients, our professionals, and our practices.
Fortunately, there is a solution that can resolve this downward trend in mental health, restore trust in veterinarians as the true pet health experts, and most importantly reduce feelings of stress, resulting in a better experience for all involved. Fear Free veterinary visits are the answer.
What do you get with Fear Free Certification?
Fear Free offers an exclusive membership with the certification program, which needs to be renewed annually in order to keep certification active and continue to gain access an amazing range of additional benefits:
Access to All Fear Free Veterinary Certification Programs
Once you register for the Fear Free Veterinary Certification Program of your choosing, you’ll have complimentary access to the others.
Fear Free Educational Library
Get access to articles, videos, and podcasts about Fear Free topics, including implementation recommendations and best practices.
Complimentary Additional CE Courses
Take RACE-approved CE courses offered at no additional cost.
Fear Free Podcast Series
In our Fear Free podcast series, we help you make the most of your certification. Featuring discussions with Fear Free Certified® Professionals that are on the forefront of Fear Free, you can hear real world examples, advice, insights, and more.
Marketing Materials
Promote your achievement by using the Fear Free logo on lab coats, business cards, your practice website, and client communication materials.
Fear Free Toolbox
Find downloadable forms to help implement Fear Free techniques in your practice, including CSR training lists, drug charts, and client communication posters.
Private Facebook Group
Leverage the Fear Free community to problem ask for advice, solve tough cases, share tips, and participate in fun contests.
Get featured in our directory
With thousands of professionals registered, Fear Free is on its way to becoming a household name. After becoming certified, your name will be featured in our consumer-facing directory, where millions of pet owners can find you when seeking out Fear Free care for their pet.
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Why Fear Free?
It’s the right thing to do
Fear Free helps professionals deliver better care to their patients by looking after the physical and emotional wellbeing of their patients.
Your staff will love it
Improved job satisfaction, safer work environments, and better team communication are some of Fear Free’s perks.
It’s better medicine
Vital sign readings are more accurate, enabling veterinarians to provide better diagnosis and treatment options.
It’s better business
Happier pets mean happier clients. Fear Free helps your business flourish through increased revenue, improved pet owner compliance, and enhanced relationships with your clients.
What your peers are saying about Fear Free
Utilizing Fear Free techniques, we can advance our own practices and the way we serve our communities. This is not a standalone commodity, but rather, one that complements our medical practice. Better medicine provides us with an opportunity to improve on our daily service to our clients and the pets we provide comfort to. You can practice good medicine, but if you want to practice great medicine then incorporate Fear Free medicine into your practice
Noncompliance is a major problem in veterinary medicine. It’s not our job just to send them home with medicine; it’s our job to send them home with Fear Free strategies for how to get those treatments completed to get the pets well.
Fear Free is perhaps the most important advance that has happened in our profession because it allows veterinarians and other members of the veterinary health care team to do what their heart desires—to provide health and wellness by creating a nonthreatening, nonchallenging, calming environment.
Fear Free has become the single most transformative initiative in the history of companion animal practice.
