| Responsible Department | Department of Veterinary Disease Biology | ||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | Post experience Master´s Programme | ||||||||||||||
| Duration | Outside schedule | ||||||||||||||
| Credits | 6 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||
| Level of Course | Post experience masters programme | ||||||||||||||
| Examination | written examination Written Exam in Lecturehall All aids allowed Description of Examination: The examination is an online written examination on 4 hours. Questions are presented on a precise time and answers must be returned at a deadline four hours later. The participant can take the exam at any place. 7-point scale, external examiner | ||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Outside schedule Week Structure: Outside schedule, Autumn 2011 | ||||||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | English | ||||||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||||||
| The course covers laboratory animal diseases, health problems and health monitoring. | |||||||||||||||
| Teaching and learning Methods | |||||||||||||||
| Most theory will be covered by self study, but it will be supported by two days of theoretical and practical teaching, and 10 sets of weekly on-line exercises. | |||||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||||
| The course covers laboratory animal pathology and health needed for qualification within animal experimentation on FELASA category D level Having finished the course the student will have the following: Knowledge The student knows - important laboratory animal diseases - principles of health monitoring in laboratory animal colonies Skills The student can - descripe microscopic and macroscopic pathology of laboratory animals - diagnose relevant pathological conditions in laboratory animals - understand laboratory animal health reports Competencies The student can - take responsibility for protecting the health of animals for experiments | |||||||||||||||
| Course Literature | |||||||||||||||
| o Fox J, Anderson LC, Loew FM, Quimby FW: Laboratory Animal Medicine, Academic Press 2002, chapters 3-20, 25-26 o Hedrich HJ & Bullock G: The Laboratory Mouse, Elsevier/Academic Press, 2004/2006, chapters 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15,17, 20, 27,30 o Suckow MA, Weisbroth S, Franklin CL: The Laboratory Rat, Second Edition, Elsevier/Academic Press, 2005, chapter 20 o FELASA Guidelines for health monitoring of rodents/rabbits, primates, cats/dogs/pigs, small ruminants and for accreditation of laboratories. Will be available as PDF on Campusnet. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||
| Axel Jacob Kornerup Hansen, akh@life.ku.dk, Department of Veterinary Disease Biology/Section for Biomedicine, Phone: 353-32726 | |||||||||||||||
| Course Fee | |||||||||||||||
| 9565 kr | |||||||||||||||
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