Compliance Inspections: PAM, Mock USDA, and Medical Record Audits
This 70 minute webinar dives into the details of how to inspect your own laboratory animal facility for compliance with the Guide and the Animal Welfare Regulations. By conducting thorough compliance inspections and medical records audits at your institution, you will help prepare your animal care and use program for IACUC semi-annual inspections, USDA inspections, AAALAC site visits, and visits from clients (for Contract Research Organizations). In the presentation we will discuss using checklists and prioritizing, appropriate records to review, and practical ideas for inspecting:
Inspections Webinar Dates:
- animal housing rooms,
- procedure rooms,
- surgery areas,
- behavioral testing areas,
- storage rooms, and
- cage wash area
- comparing written records to the protocol, and
- knowing key items to look for in each medical record.
Inspections Webinar Dates:
June 3rd, 2013, 1pm EDT
September 9th, 2013, 1pm EDT
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Designing and Implementing an Effective PAM Program
This presentation is designed for institutions that do not currently have a formal PAM program, but are considering adding one.
The 60-minute webinar will cover:
Cost is $75 per institution. With your paid registration you will receive: live webinar, PDF of the slides, and sample inspection check-off sheets that you can customize.
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PAM Webinar Dates:
The 60-minute webinar will cover:
- Goals of a PAM program
- Designing a PAM program to fit your institution
- Staffing your program with appropriate individuals
- Choosing the PAM tasks that fit your institutional needs (including how to conduct protocol audits and inspections)
- Scheduling PAM tasks for appropriate time intervals
- Formalizing your program; why it’s important, types of policies/SOPs to develop
- Training your PAM staff: what to include, common compliance problems to look for, developing inspection check-off sheets
- Implementing your program; ideas for fostering trust
Cost is $75 per institution. With your paid registration you will receive: live webinar, PDF of the slides, and sample inspection check-off sheets that you can customize.
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PAM Webinar Dates:
June 24th, 2013, 1pm EDT
August 19th, 2013, 1pm EDT
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The 8th Edition of the Guide: Highlights, Key Points and Implications for Animal Care and Use Programs
The Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals is the Bible for the animal research community. This set of guidelines, recommendations and requirements must be used by all institutions conducting research with vertebrate animals that receive federal funding, or are accredited by AAALAC. The 8th edition was released in January 2011, and it contains numerous updates and changes (and is about twice the length) from the previous edition published back in 1996.
This webinar highlights the changes in the 8th edition of the Guide that are most significant to laboratory animal care and use programs. In this one-hour presentation, you will learn the key points and significant changes, along with implications for your animal care and use program, all organized by chapter and page number. Along with the the 60-minute webinar, you will receive a PDF of the slides (which includes additional slides cut out of the presentation) and a list of all "must" statements in the Guide.
The Guide webinar is now available as an Adobe Connect webinar recording, which you can purchase access to and watch at any time on your computer. Cost for this on-demand service is $100 per institution. Please email info(at)acupconsulting.com
This webinar highlights the changes in the 8th edition of the Guide that are most significant to laboratory animal care and use programs. In this one-hour presentation, you will learn the key points and significant changes, along with implications for your animal care and use program, all organized by chapter and page number. Along with the the 60-minute webinar, you will receive a PDF of the slides (which includes additional slides cut out of the presentation) and a list of all "must" statements in the Guide.
The Guide webinar is now available as an Adobe Connect webinar recording, which you can purchase access to and watch at any time on your computer. Cost for this on-demand service is $100 per institution. Please email info(at)acupconsulting.com
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Webinar Topics Available by Request
Webinars on the following topics may be scheduled to fit your institution's needs by request. Webinars can be customized to some extent. Cost for these webinars is $175 and may include supplemental materials. Please email us at info(at)acupconsulting.com for more information or fill out the information request form below.
IACUC Members
IACUC Members
- Understanding your role on the committee
- Relevant regulatory mandates (AWA and AWR, PHS Policy, the Guide)
- Common compliance problems and how to manage them
- Regulatory mandates: implications for caretakers of USDA and Non-USDA covered species
- Preparing for an AAALAC site visit
- Maintaining the facility for the unannounced USDA inspection
- Record documentation: what’s important
- The importance of laboratory animals and the technicians who care for them
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