Audience: New and experienced IACUC members performing facility inspections.
Goals:

• IACUC should be able to properly conduct a facility inspection.
• IACUC should know why they are required to conduct a facility inspection.

Objectives: 

The IACUC member should be able to:

• Know when to conduct a facility inspection
• Know where to conduct the inspections – which facilities to inspect
• Apply requirements of inspection
• Know who is responsible for inspections
• Assess animal welfare issues
• Generate an end product/report

Module Developers: Dave Cannon, Jim Elliott, EB Meek, Jackie Newell-Hunt, Mildred Randolph, Axel Wolff

Audience: Seasoned IACUC members

Goals:
IACUC members recognize their role includes:

• Ensuring minimization of pain and distress
• Evaluating humane endpoints

Objectives:

• Define pain and distress
• Define experimental and humane endpoints
• Evaluate procedure for pain, distress and humane endpoints (IACUC role)
• Recognize methods to manage pain and distress
• Assess protocol which includes unrelieved pain and distress

Module Developers: Mary Lou James, Eugene Matullo, Brent Morse, Jim O’Malley, Nora Wineland, JoAnne Zurlo

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 reports noncompliance to internal stakeholders and to federal agencies
• Identify the purpose and use of FOIA
• Identify the potential consequences of FOIA release of noncompliance reports
• Explain the ways in which noncompliance can be reported to a federal agency and who is responsible
• Understand the creation and use of an optimal noncompliance report

Module Developers: Allyson Bennett, Robert Gibbens, William Greer, Swapna Mohan, Christian Newcomer, Jerald Silverman

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: By the end of this session, participants will be able to:

• Explain the difference between significant and other changes
• Outline processes for making protocol changes
• Provide constructive suggestions to the IACUC in consideration of significant changes
• Assess how the protocol can be written to enable flexibility and avoid the need for future modifications

Module Developers: Kristina Adams, Lynn Anderson, Doreen Bartlett, John Dennis, JR Haywood

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

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Audience: New IACUC members

Goals:

• Understand FCR and DMR in the context of the regulations and “PRIMO! University” policy
• IACUC members will know their role when a protocol is proposed for FCR or DMR
• Appreciate the value of applying FCR and DMR

Objectives:

• Define FCR and DMR methods and their associated regulations
• Analyze how FCR and DMR are applied at our institution and how this differs from minimum regulatory requirements and guidelines
• Outline the roles and responsibilities of IACUC members and other reviewers in conducting FCR and DMR at our institution
• Evaluate the reasons for selecting FCR or DMR for individual protocols

Module Developers: Marlene Cole, Paula Gladue, Lauren Danridge, Larry Carbone, Eric Hutchinson, Venita Thornton

Module Materials: TBD