| Department of Veterinary Pathobiology | |||||||||||||||
| Earliest Possible Year | Post experience Master´s Programme | ||||||||||||||
| Duration | Outside schedule | ||||||||||||||
| Credits | 4 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||
| Course Level | Post experience masters programme Module 3A, Master Programme in Laboratory Animal Science | ||||||||||||||
| 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 | ||||||||||||||
| Organisation of Teaching | |||||||||||||||
| Teaching Language | English | ||||||||||||||
| Course Objectives | |||||||||||||||
| See course content | |||||||||||||||
| Course Contents | |||||||||||||||
| The course covers laboiratory 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 participant will able to recognize laboratory animal diseases and perform health monitoring in laboratory animals. | |||||||||||||||
| Course Litterature | |||||||||||||||
| Percy DH & Barthold SW: Pathology of rodents and rabbits. Iowa State University Press, 2007. Third edition Either Jensen HE, Leifsson PS, Nielsen OL, Agerholm JS, Madsen LW & Iburg T: Sektionsteknik. DSR forlag, 2001 Or Feldman DB & Sely JC: Necropsy guide of rodents and rabbits. CRC PRess, 1988 Fox J, Anderson L, Loew F, Quimby F: Laboratory Animal Medicine, Academic Press, 2002. Hansen, AK: Handbook of Laboratory Animal Bacteriology, CRC Press, 2001 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. GV-SOLAS working group: Impact of infectious agents on animal experiments. Laboratory Animals 33, 2, suppl. 1, 1999. http://www.lal.org.uk/supplement.html Owen DG: Parasites of Laboratory Animals: Royal Society of Medicine Services, 1992 | |||||||||||||||
| Course Coordinator | |||||||||||||||
| Axel Kornerup Hansen, akh@life.ku.dk, Department of Veterinary Pathobiology/Section for Biomedicine, Phone: 35332726 | |||||||||||||||
| Attendance Fee | |||||||||||||||
| 9100 kr | |||||||||||||||
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