| Department of Veterinary Pathobiology | |||||||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | MSc. 1 year | ||||||||||||||||||
| Duration | Outside schedule | ||||||||||||||||||
| Credits | 6 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Course Level | 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 Dates of Exam: 27 January 2006 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Requirement For Attending Exam | 80 % attendance | ||||||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | Lectures, practicals, theoreticals, excursion. Handling and procedures will be trained on live animals - only 2006. The course is taught in week no. 2, 3, and 4 in January 2006. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Block Placement | Outside schedule Week Structure: Outside schedule, Uge 2, 3 og 4 Januar 2006 som et led i overgangsordningen | ||||||||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||||||
| Optional Prerequisites | Basic biological courses and statistics are essential preconditions. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Restrictions | 48 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Areas of Competence the Course Will Address | |||||||||||||||||||
| The student will be able to - comprehend 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||||||||
| To introduce the student to using, handling and maintaining laboratory animals in theory and practice. 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. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| The theory will be given as lectures and theoretical case work, while handling and experimental techniques will be practiced on live animals. Institutions using laboratory animals will be visited. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||||||||
| Hau, J. & van Hoosier, G: Handbook of Laboratory Animal Science, 2nd ed., Vol. 1, CRC Press, Roca Raton, 2002. Exercise manual for Laboratory Animal Science (will be placed on homepage). | |||||||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||||||
| Axel Kornerup Hansen, akh@life.ku.dk, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology/Section for Biomedicine, Phone: 35332726 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Study Board | |||||||||||||||||||
| Study Committee V | |||||||||||||||||||
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