Goals: To understand the IACUC’s role in noncompliance reporting

Objectives:

• Assess or develop process for evaluating animal welfare allegation
• Define the IACUC’s role in reporting noncompliant events
• Define the four types of noncompliant reportable events
• Describe the contents of a report keeping in mind the content may be subject to FOIA

Module Developers: Eric Allen, Deborah Frolicher, Sherri Goss, Julie Kramer, Marie Ortega, William Stokes

Goals:

• Understand FCR and DMR in the context of the regulations and “PRIMO!

Audience: Operations staff (i.e., veterinary, husbandry, and research) primarily; also the IACUC (protocol reviewers)

Goal: The IACUC training module is to provide an understanding of the facility inspection process to safeguard animal welfare.

Objectives:

1. Define responsibility of IACUC members
2. Perform an inspection
3. Identify and classify deficiencies
4. Create a report documenting the findings/results and a corrective action plan

Module Developers: Janna Barcelo, Deborah Holland, Sally Light, Gregory Reinhard, Obed Rutebuka
 

Goals:

• Improve the research environment for the PI by defining the significant change process
• Foster understanding of regulatory requirements
• Increase efficiency of significant change approval process

Objectives:

Goal: Understand how to effectively review protocols to ensure pain and distress are minimized consistent with sound research design

Goals:

• Understand what constitutes a reportable noncompliance event and identify the institution’s process for reporting noncompliance
• Understand why reporting and open records reflect a public mandate and how can provide either an accurate view or encourage public misconceptions
• Understand how to write a noncompliance report and to whom it should be reported

Objectives:

• Discriminate between reportable and non-reportable noncompliance events
• Explain how your institution repo