Deepen your understanding of the ethical issues involved in scientific projects with our e-learning course, accessible at any time. This programme will provide you with the essential basics of animal ethics, the criteria for choosing experimental models and alternative methods. You will also learn about the role and operation of ethics committees, the classification of procedures according to their severity, and the principles for applying limit points. A guided reading of a Project Authorisation Application (PAA) and an introduction to APAFIS and the non-technical summary will give you a practical insight into the ethics review process.
A flexible, interactive format for developing your skills in ethics applied to scientific research.
Who is this course for?
Target audience
- SBEA members, Designated veterinarians, Project designers, Animal Facility Staff, Animal Facility Manager, Ethics committees
Prerequisites
- Notion of animal as sentient being
- Understand the value of animal models and the issues involved in developing alternative methods
- Knowing how projects are ethically assessed
- Know how to read a DAP and find the elements that contribute to animal ethics
- Notions of animal ethics
- Criteria for choosing an experimental model
- Principles of alternative methods
- Role and operation of ethics committees
- Severity of procedures: classification principle
- Limiting points: implementation principle
- Ethics review: guided reading of a PAD
- APAFIS, the importance of RNT
- Interactive e-learning module
Assessment of knowledge by means of questions integrated into the modules to be validated, giving entitlement to a training certificate
- 180 EXCLUDING VAT / for individual access for 2 weeks
- Disabled access: Adaptation to your needs on request