Course – PIL AB – (Newcastle – July 2020)
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The articles listed below support the learning outcomes required for all the modules needed for a UK Personal Licence, category A and B.
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National Legislation (EU1)
- Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act
- Project Licences (PPLs)
- Personal Licences (PILs)
- Euthanasia and Personal Licencing
- Establishment Licences
- Animal Welfare and Ethical Review Bodies
- Home Office inspectors
- Animals in Science Committee (ASC)
- Codes of Practice and Home Office Guidance
- Other relevant legislation
Ethics, animal welfare and the 3Rs (EU2)
Basic and appropriate biology (EU3)
- An introduction to animal biology
- Laboratory mouse biology
- Laboratory rat biology
- Laboratory gerbil biology
- Laboratory hamster biology
- Laboratory rabbit biology
- Laboratory guinea pig biology
Animal care, health and management (EU4)
- Standardising housing and husbandry
- Acclimatisation
- Handling and restraint
- Diet, bedding and environmental enrichment
- Methods of identification of animals
- Health status and health monitoring
- Safety and animal care
- Species specific considerations – housing and reproduction – mice
- Species specific considerations – housing and reproduction – rats
Recognition of pain, suffering and distress (EU5)
- An introduction to the recognition of pain, suffering and distress in laboratory animals
- Why animal welfare matters in research
- Assessing animals
- Recording and scoring animals
- Managing pain and distress
- Humane endpoints
- Severity classifications
- Cumulative suffering
Humane methods of killing (EU6)
- The principles of humane killing
- Institutional responsibilities when humanely killing animals
- Schedule 1
- The 3Rs and humane killing of animals
- Handling and restraint for euthanasia
- Safety and humane killing of animals
- Methods of euthanasia
Minor procedures without anaesthesia (EU7)
- Handling and restraint for minor procedures without anaesthesia
- Administration of substances and collection of biological materials without anaesthesia
- Choice of method of administration when conducting minor procedures without anaesthesia
- Collection of blood and other biological materials without anaesthesia
- Collection of urine
- Collection of faeces
- Specific guidance for mice when conducting minor procedures without anaesthesia
- Specific guidance for rats when conducting minor procedures without anaesthesia
- Specific guidance for gerbils when conducting minor procedures without anaesthesia
- Specific guidance for hamsters when conducting minor procedures without anaesthesia
- Specific guidance for rabbits when conducting minor procedures without anaesthesia
- Specific guidance for guinea pigs when conducting minor procedures without anaesthesia
- Specific guidance for ferrets when conducting minor procedures without anaesthesia
- Special considerations when conducting minor procedures without anaesthesia