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