| Responsible Department | Department of Veterinary Disease Biology | ||||||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | MSc. 1 year to MSc. 2 year | ||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | One block | ||||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 7.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Level of Course | MSc | ||||||||||||||||||
| Examination | Final Examination oral examination No aid allowed Description of Examination: During 20 minutes the student will have to reply on a theoretical question as well as discuss and eventually show events from one of the practicals or theoreticals pass/fail, internal examiner | ||||||||||||||||||
| Requirement for Attending Exam | 80 % attendance to practical exercises | ||||||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Block 2 Week Structure: C | ||||||||||||||||||
| Language of Instruction | English | ||||||||||||||||||
| Restrictions | 48 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Course Content | |||||||||||||||||||
| The course includes the following topics: Ethical, welfare, and legislative aspects of using animals for research; biology, husbandry, genetics, breeding, transgenesis, anaesthesia and analgesia of laboratory animals, experimental procedures, alternatives to animal use and analysis of relevant scientific literature | |||||||||||||||||||
| Teaching and learning Methods | |||||||||||||||||||
| Lectures and theoretical case work will be placed as e-learning on Absalon and followed up by question/discussion sessions with a teacher, while handling and experimental techniques will be practiced on live animals. Institutions using laboratory animals will be visited. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Learning Outcome | |||||||||||||||||||
| The course is a category C course in accordance with the European Council's convention ETS 123 and the Councils Resolution on Education and Training of Persons Working with Laboratory Animals from December 3, 1993 and it is accredited by the Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations as well as the Ministry of Justice under the Danish Givernment. The course gives as practical and theoretic introduction to handling, housing and using laboratory animals and how to replace, refine and reduce the use of live animals for research. Having completed the course it is expected that the student has the following: Knowledge The student knows - that animal experimentation is complicated and requires current training to secure the well-being of the animals and the scientific outcome - the biological basis of laboratory animal breeding and maintenance including basic genetics and reproduction, health monitoring and protection, animal welfare - the legal basis for animal experimentation - the scientific methods applied within animal experimentation Skills The student is able to - do self training on handling and procedures in the most common laboratory animals - explain the basic principles on how to use animals for research - apply principles of procedures on their future experiments - reflect over the ethical basis for the use of animals for research Competencies The student is able to - perform basic handling of common rodents and pigs when used for research - perform basic animal experiments - achieve a personal license to do so within the European Union according to guidelines for category C education issued by the Federation of European Laboratory Animal Associations | |||||||||||||||||||
| Course Literature | |||||||||||||||||||
| Suggested reading is Hau, J. & van Hoosier, G: Handbook of Laboratory Animal Science, 2nd ed., Vol. 1, CRC Press, Roca Raton, 2002. Other sources of relevant information is acceptable. A list with all theoretical questions for the exam will be placed on Absalon. Exercise manuals for Laboratory Animal Science will be placed on Absalon. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||||||
| Dorte Bratbo Sørensen, dobj@life.ku.dk, Department of Veterinary Disease Biology/Section for Biomedicine, Phone: 353-32724 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Study Committee V | |||||||||||||||||||
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