Basic Course in Animal Care and Ethics for Honours Students November 2020

Basic Course in Animal Care and Ethics for Honours Students November 2020

Basic Course in Animal Care and Ethics for Honours Students November 2020


This course is only open to students enrolled in an honours program or ILP at UNSW or affliated institutions (UNSW and affiliated organisations i.e. Children's Cancer Institute, Garvan Institute, Ingham Institute, Neuroscience Research Australia, Liverpool Hospital, Prince of Wales Hospital, St George Hospital, St Vincent's Hospital, and Victor Chang).

Program: 8:30am to 5:00pm

  • Introduction to Ethical issues related to the use of animals for scientific purposes
  • Overview of the Australian Code of Practice and current legislations
  • Responsibilities with animal use
  • Introduction to the promotion of animal wellbeing
  • Normal animal behaviour, identification  and management of pain and distress
  • Assessing impact of common procedures
  • Introduction to animal handling  and  basic scientific techniques used with laboratory animals
  • Introduction to wildlife ethics

 

Assessment: Written examination
Qualification: Certificate of Attendance

Registration closing date:

 

To register your interest, please complete the our expression of interest form and we will contact you as soon the the module becomes available.



Event details

Free

Location

Online Format

Key contact

Dr Josephine Joya
0466 778 752
animalcare@unsw.edu.au

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