The student shall achieve knowledge on animal research and demonstrate that they can apply this knowledge in a new context, for example when planning own experiments or when evaluating or give input to plans of animals experiments. They must achieve knowledge necessary and useful when they are performing procedures in practice or evaluate suggested practical solutions.
They must be capable of evaluating common practice on light of new knowledge about alternative ways to do animal experiments. This includes methods that reduce negative impact on the animals (refinement), means that improve the conditions for the animals (refinement), planning and designing experiments to optimize knowledge output with the use of as few animals as possible (reduction) and use alternatives to animals whenever they are available (replacement).
The course shall cover the core module of Mattilsynets and the EU-directives (2010/63) demands to theoretical training for persons performing procedures (function A) and designing experiments (function B).
Species specific topics are covered in LAS302 (mammals) and LAS303 (fish)
The aim is to give the students an introduction to central topics in LAS and make them available to apply this when panning and performing own experiments.
LAS 301 covers:
After the education the students shall have achieved the following learning outcome.
The course focuses on general issues important when animals are used in research. Specific examples from mammals or fish are used for illustration
All lectures are mandatory
Case discussion