IMPROVING TRAINING FOR INSTITUTIONAL ANIMAL CARE AND USE COMMITTEE MEMBERS

MICAELA MARÍA RICCA; EMILIANA HERRERO ; A. CAROLINA MOURELLE

Congreso; LXI Reunión Anual de la Sociedad Argentina de Investigación Clínica (SAIC); 2016

Sociedad Argentina de Investigación Clínica

224 (2037) IMPROVING TRAINING FOR INSTITUTIONALANIMAL CARE AND USE COMMITTEE MEMBERSMicaela María Ricca1, /a. Emiliana Herrero2, A. CarolinaMourelle3. 1Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia UniversidadCatólica de Chile 2Instituto Ciencias Básicas y MedicinaExperimental Instituto Universitario Hospital Italiano (IUHI)3IDEHU-CONICET.+nternational and national regulations require that +nstitutionalAnimal Care and Use Committees (IACUCs) must be establishedby institutions that use laboratory animals for research or teachingto oversee, evaluate and monitor the institution?s animal careand use program. Composition and functions of Latin American+AC7Cs are diverse due to the lacM of training available. +n addition,many Latin American institutions cannot afford to send +AC7Cmembers to training courses. LacM of information in Spanish furtherhampers efforts to promote training. +n order to harmonize +AC7Csfunction and training among Latin America +AC7C members, thechallenge Yas to develop a Spanish language elearning trainingprogram. The program folloYs the constructivist model usedby Aula 8irtual $ioterio for other courses, through debates onanimal bioethics, from the macro to the study of specific casespragmatically. &idactic and interactive educational training Yerecarefully designed for successful completion of each stage for allthe attendees. C+1/S/+CLAS +nternational )uiding 2rinciples for$iomedical 4esearch +nvolving Animals Yas a Mey document, andcollaboration Yith AAALAC, S$CAL and +CLAS experts Yas incorporatedinto the curriculum. For assessing the results, Ye asMedstudents to ansYer an anonymous survey, on a score of excellent,very good, good or regular. 1ver respondents, . assessedthe proposed program as excellent and . as very good aboutthe methodology totally virtual classes . assessed as excellentand . as very good. Finally, to confirm and checM thecontribution of this training in order to revieY and modify previousYorM experiences. As a result . scored excellent, . verygood and . good. +n conclusion, an elearning training programdesigned and managed properly can be a valuable tool to enableeffective approach to training and quality over a large geographicarea at loY cost for participants individually.