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Laboratory animal pathology
Provider: Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences

Activity no.: 3160-20-00-00 
Enrollment deadline: 15/03/2020
Date and time11.05.2020, at: 08:00 - 15.05.2020, at: 16:00
Regular seats20
Course fee3,960.00 kr.
LecturersLouise Kruse Jensen
ECTS credits3.70
Contact personBenedicte Kragh    E-mail address: mbhk@sund.ku.dk
Enrolment Handling/Course OrganiserPhD 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), and for PhD students at graduate schools in the other Nordic countries. All other participants must pay the course fee.
Anyone can apply for the course, but if you are not a PhD student at a Danish university, you will be placed on the waiting list until enrollment deadline.This also applies to PhD students from Nordic countries. After the enrollment deadline, available seats will be allocated to applicants on the waiting list.


Course title
Laboratory animal pathology

Learning objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:

1. Discuss the pros and cons of the use of laboratory animals in biomedical research.
2. Discuss lesions in laboratory animals in general.
3. Discuss toxic lesions in laboratory animals.
4. Discuss neoplastic lesions in laboratory animals.
5. Discuss the pathology in porcine models of infectious lesions.

Content
Introduction to laboratory animal pathology and selected areas in which animal models are used in biomedical research. During the course, participants will work with virtual slides representing different types of lesions in laboratory animals.

Participants
PhD-students with a background in medicine or life sciences/biology with basic knowledge of pathology and cell structure and function.


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:

All graduate programmes.

Language
English.

Form
Lectures, histopathological (virtual microscopy) and macroscopical exercises (hands-on).

Lectures: 12 h
Histopathological seminars: 15 h
Macroscopical exercises: 3 h
Self-study 6 h
Examination and evaluation: 1 h
Sum: 37 h

Course director
Louise Kruse Jensen, associate professor, PhD, DVM, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences. Louise-k@sund.ku.dk

Teachers
Páll S. Leifsson, associate professor, PhD, DVM, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences
Louise Kruse Jensen, associate professor, PhD, DVM, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences
Henrik Elvang Jensen, professor, dr.med.vet., DVM, dipECVP, Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences


Dates
11-15 May 2020

Course location
Department of Veterinary and Animal Sciences, Frederiksberg Campus

Number of participants
12

Registration
Please register before 15 March 2019

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.

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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