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 tra8ining for persons performing procedures (function A) and designing experiments (function B).
LAS302 focuses on traditional laboratory animals such as rodents and pigs. Other species are briefly mentioned. Generic topics are covered in LAS301.
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.
In LAS 302 the following topics are covered
Persons performing procedures (function A) at UiB go through the same training program as function B, and in addition they must demonstrate that they master procedures properly to work independently without negative impact on the animals or on the experiments. Practical training must be tailor-made to the specific experiment and is therefore not a part of LAS302.
After the education the students shall have achieved the following learning outcome.
Knowledge:
For rodents and pigs, the student must describe
Generic knowledge: This course focuses on rodents and pigs. Similar factors are important also for other species.