Goals: 

• Understand the Veterinary Verification and Consultation (VVC) portion of the OLAW/USDA Guidance on Significant Changes
• Appreciate the benefits of the OLAW/USDA Guidance on Significant Changes for the IACUC

Objectives: 

• Distinguish significant changes to eligible approved protocols using DMR/FCR or VVC
• Identify policies that must be in place prior to implementing a VVC process at an institution
• Outline the benefits of a VVC process

Module Developers: Pam Broussard, Teri Hills, Chris Mannor, Randy Parsons

Audience: Principal investigators writing protocols for the first time

Goal: Understand the concepts of pain, distress, and humane endpoints in animals

Objectives:

• Identify pain and distress in rodents
• Categorize pain and distress levels appropriately
• Formulate relevant humane endpoints

Module Developers: Stephanie Cook, Rachel Feldman, Noel Ramsey, Cody Yager

Audience: IACUC members

Goal: Understand policy for review and approval of significant amendments to ensure compliance

Objectives:

• Define a significant amendment based on institutional policy
• Differentiate between examples of significant or minor protocol amendments
• Predict the proper method of IACUC review for significant amendments

Module Developers: Anne Clancy, Jason Egeler, Jean Kundert, Mary Travis

Audience: IACUC members

Goals:

• Understand the concept of noncompliance and how and why we report
• Understand the impact of the Freedom of Information Act as it relates to noncompliance reporting

Objectives:

• Define noncompliance
• Assess whether events are noncompliant
• Outline noncompliance reporting requirements of OLAW & USDA
• Predict possible outcomes of reporting noncompliance
• Justify why we report noncompliance
• Recognize appropriate content of a noncompliance report and what can make it FOIA ready

Module Developers: Marilyn Brown, Jessi Kittel, Jane Na, David Powell, Bridget Watson

Audience: IACUC members

Goal: Understanding Guide departures and to appropriately report findings to address institutional regulatory burden

Objectives:

• Define must, should, or may
• Identify an IACUC approved departure, exception or a validated performance standard
• Categorize the status of a finding as not a departure, an approved departure, or noncompliance
• Determine the appropriate reporting requirements for a departure

Module Developers: Gretchen Hundertmark, Kari Koszdin, Kirk Lubick, Dawn O-Connor

Audience: IACUC members

Goal: Understand continuing review of protocols

Objectives:

• Delineate what constitutes a continuing review
• Assess alternate conceptions about continuing review

Module Developers: Rachel Cameron, Laurence Istvan, Elisabeth Koncza, Allison Overmyer