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Improving Postgraduate Learning
Improving Postgraduate Learning 2011 - 2012
 
Laboratory Safety
 
Animal Handling
Speaker
  Dr Anthony Edward James
Director, Laboratory Animal Services Centre

Designed for
  Postgraduate students who are carrying out animal experimentation.

Objectives
  To give students an understanding about the ethics of animal experimentation, the correct methods of handling and treating an animal and the important aspects of safely working with animals.

Structure
  1.5-hour lecture

Brief Description
  Animal experimentation, if it is to be successful, requires the experimenter to have knowledge about the HUMANE treatment of animals being used in experiments. This requires the experimenter to be conscious of the ethics that underlies research using animals, it also requires the experimenter to know how to safely work with animals and how to treat them, whether for injections or blood collection or euthanasia.

Schedule
Group 1 (English)   Group 2 (English)
Date 24 Sep 2011 (Sat)   Date 26 Nov 2011 (Sat)
Time 10:30 am - 12:00 noon   Time 10:30 am - 12:00 noon
Venue Room 307, Esther Lee Building   Venue Room 307, Esther Lee Building

Medium of Instruction:   English



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