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Experimental surgery I – Basic principles and procedures
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences
Activity no.: 3157-18-00-00
Enrollment deadline: 22/09/2018
Date and time
22.10.2018, at: 08:00 - 24.10.2018, at: 16:00
Regular seats
12
Course fee
7,200.00 kr.
Lecturers
Klas Abelson
ECTS credits
3.00
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). 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.
The course adheres to the modules 20, 21 and 22 in the European Commission Framework for Education and Training under the Directive 2010/63/EU, and thus covers the required content to cover the specific learning outcomes for these modules: http://ec.europa.eu/environment/chemicals/lab_animals/pdf/guidance/education_training/en.pdf
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.
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, demonstrations, practical hands-on exercises and
Workload:
E-lectures – 6 h (self-studies)
Seminars – 3 h
Demonstrations – 1 h
Practical hands-on – 20 h
Course director
Klas Abelson, Associate Professor, PhD
Department of Experimental Medicine
klasab@sund.ku.dk
Teachers
Klas Abelson, Associate Professor, PhD
Daniel Kylmann Hansen, Animal technician
Other experts in the field
Dates
October 22-24 (week 43) 2018
Course location
Department of Experimental Medicine, Panum Building
Registration
Registration deadline 22 September 2018
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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