Course on Laboratory Animal Science

Objective

The objective of the 80 hours course is to present basic facts and principles that are essential for the humane use and care of laboratory animals and for the quality of research.
The course may also be of interest for those who intend to set up a similar course at their own location. For this purpose, during the course acquisition of teaching materials can be discusses with the course committee.

Our international courses are meant for people who do not speak and/or understand Dutch. Otherwise we refer to our Dutch courses (see Dutch pages: http://www.uu.nl/art9cursus

Workload

The number of credits that can be obtained after successful completion of the course is 3 ECTS ( European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System). The lenght of the course is two weeks.

Certificate

If the participant has met all legal requirements and has successfully passed the exam at the end of the course, he/she will receive a certificate.

Legal requirements (according to Section 2 of the Dutch Experiments on Animals Decree)

Beside successful completion of the Course on Laboratory Animal Science, the applicant needs to have required:

a MSc degree in a biological or zootechnical discipline
knowledge of the basic subjects of biology up to 18.75 ECTS (=500 study hours) including at least 7.5 ECTS on anatomy/zoology and 7.5 ECTS on physiology.

Please send in together with your registration form:

a copy of your master diploma
a complete list of all relevant courses (including BSc studies) that you followed, and the number of hours that they took (if your academic training was not one of the aforementioned disciplines).

If you have not (yet) obtained a Master degree, you will receive a written confirmation stating that you followed the course and successfully passed the exam. With this confirmation you can after obtaining your master degree, put in a request to send you the final certificate confirming that you meet all legal requirements of Dutch law to be registered as an art.9 researcher.

Language
English

Registration

The maximum number of participants is 24. Registration will be accepted after receipt of:

the registration form on 'first come, first served' basis. Please fill in (using the Tab-key) and send it by fax to +31 30 253 7997, or by regular mail to: Course on Laboratory Animal Science, Yalelaan 2, 3584 CM Utrecht, the Netherlands
Masterstudents Biomedical Sciences of the Utrecht University are required to contact the master Administration office for registration, e-mail: infobms@umcutrecht.nl. The registration form can be found: Registrationform

Note that our English courses are meant for students who do not speak or understand Dutch. Dutch speaking students should register in our Dutch course, for course dates see: http://www.uu.nl/art9cursus

Courses WITH accommodation

Once a year in July we organise a course with hotel accommodation, only for participants not living or working in the Netherlands. A hotel reservation is made for 12 nights, lunches and dinners are included during course days.

Course dates

Courses WITHOUT accommodation

Apr 15 - Apr 26, 2013
Sep 23 - Oct 04, 2013
Nov 04 - Nov 15, 2013

Courses WITH accommodation

Jul 01 - Jul 12, 2013

Courses WITHOUT accommodation: € 1660 including course materials

For employees of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of Utrecht University the course fee is: € 885 (English textbook included).

For students of the Postgraduate Master Program of the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Utrecht University participation to the course is free

Courses WITH accommodation: € 3335 including:

course materials
lunches during course days
dinners during course days
accommodation for 12 nights
daily transport from the hotel to the university and back during course days

Cancellation Policy
registration is canceled:

22 or more days prior to the starting date of the course: the payment is fully refunded.
7 - 21 days prior to the starting date of the course, 50% of the payment is refunded to the client.
7 or less days to the starting date of the course or no-show, the payment is not refunded.