Graduate School of health and Medical Sciences

Experimental surgery I – Basic principles and procedures
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3157-17-00-00
	Enrollment deadline: 25/08/2017

Date and time	11.09.2017, at: 09:00 - 15.09.2017, at: 16:00
Regular seats	12
Course fee	8,040.00 kr.
Lecturers	Klas Abelson
ECTS credits	3.50

Contact person	Gitte Balle Kaltoft E-mail address: gitte.nielsen@sund.ku.dk

Enrolment Handling/Course Organiser	PhD administration E-mail address: phdkursus@sund.ku.dk

Aim and content This course is free of charge for PhD students at Danish universities (except Copenhagen Business School). Special rules apply for research year students enrolled at Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences at UCPH. All other participants must pay the course fee. Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student, you will be placed on the waiting list for the course until enrollment deadline. After the deadline of enrollment, available seats will be allocated to students on the waiting list. Learning objectives A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to: Knowledge • Understand legal aspects of invasive procedures on laboratory animals • Have insight in anaesthetic and analgesic principles in animal experiments; pre-, intra- and postoperatively • Describe the most commonly applied experimental surgical techniques in the most common laboratory animals Skills • Explain and account for the importance of hygiene in connection to surgical procedures • Apply aseptic techniques in connection to surgical procedures • Apply basic surgical procedures on rats and mice Competencies • independently take responsibility to implement and further develop practical skills in the performance of basic experimental surgery Content The aim of the course is to give the participants a basic knowledge and training in experimental surgery on small laboratory animals. Theoretical content: Legal aspects of invasive procedures on laboratory animals; anaesthesia and analgesia of laboratory animals; surgical instruments and techniques; common surgical procedures on laboratory animals; hygiene, asepsis, and post-surgical treatment. Practical content: Application and monitoring of anaesthesia in rats and mice; practice in basic surgical procedures on rats and mice, hereunder castration, vasectomy and various ectomies; demonstration of anaesthetic procedures and surgery in pigs. Participants The course is directed to PhD-students, but also to other academics and technical staff, performing animal experimental procedures involving surgical techniques. The participants shall have passed a course in laboratory animal science for at least functions A and D according to Directive 2010/63/EU, Article 23.2 (formerly FELASA C or B courses). Relevance to graduate programmes The course is relevant to PhD students from the following graduate programmes at the Graduate School of Health and Medical Sciences, UCPH: In Vivo Pharmacology and Experimental Animals Pharmaceutical Sciences (Drug Research Academy) All graduate programmes Language English Form E-lectures, seminar discussions, practical hands-on exercises and practical demonstrations Course director Klas Abelson, Associate Professor, PhD Department of Experimental Medicine klasab@sund.ku.dk Teachers Klas Abelson, Associate Professor, PhD Mie Berke, DVM, PhD student Daniel Kylmann Hansen, Animal technician Other experts in the field Dates September 11-15, 2017 Course location Department of Experimental Medicine, Panum Building Registration Please register before August 25th Seats to PhD students from other Danish universities will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis and according to the applicable rules. Applications from other participants will be considered after the last day of enrolment. Note: All applicants are asked to submit invoice details in case of no-show, late cancellation or obligation to pay the course fee (typically non-PhD students). If you are a PhD student, your participation in the course must be in agreement with your principal supervisor.

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