| Inst. for Veterinær Patobiologi | |||||||||||||||||||
| Tidligst mulig placering | Kandidat 1.år | ||||||||||||||||||
| Varighed | Udenfor blokstruktur | ||||||||||||||||||
| Pointværdi | 7.5 (ECTS) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Kursustype | Kandidatkursus | ||||||||||||||||||
| Eksamen | Sluteksamen mundtlig eksamen uden hjælpemidler Beskrivelse af eksamen: 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 bestået/ikke bestået, intern censur | ||||||||||||||||||
| Forudsætninger for indstilling til eksamen | 80 % attendance | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rammer for undervisning | Lectures, practicals, theoreticals, excursion. Handling and procedures will be trained on live animals. The course is taught in week no. 2, 3 and 4. Lectures are typically given in the morning (9-12). Afternoon lectures some days. Some days lecturefree. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Blokplacering | Block 2 Ugestruktur: Outside schedule, Week 2, 3 an 4, January 2008 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Undervisningssprog | Engelsk | ||||||||||||||||||
| Anbefalede forudsætninger | Basic biological courses and statistics are essential preconditions. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Begrænset deltagerantal | 72 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Kompetenceområder | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Kursets målsætning | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Kursusindhold | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Undervisningsform | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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. | |||||||||||||||||||
| Målbeskrivelse | |||||||||||||||||||
| Stipulated in "Areas of Competence the Course Will Address" | |||||||||||||||||||
| Litteraturhenvisninger | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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). | |||||||||||||||||||
| Kursusansvarlig | |||||||||||||||||||
| Axel Kornerup Hansen, akh@life.ku.dk, Institut for Veterinær Patobiologi/Faggruppen for Biomedicin, Tlf: 35332726 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Studienævn | |||||||||||||||||||
| Studienævn V | |||||||||||||||||||
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