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SUMMARY:Pain and distress in laboratory animals
DESCRIPTION:Understanding\, preventing and alleviating pain and distress is a key part of the responsibilities of many animal care staff. This may involve directly evaluating the welfare state of animals and implementing refinements to their care or participating in the ethical review process and contributing to the harm: benefit analysis of research projects. \nThis unit provides an overview of pain and distress in laboratory animals\, gives an introduction to pain and nociception\, and current concepts of animal welfare. It provides detailed information on evaluating and managing pain in rodents\, and an overview of pain in larger species and in non-mammalian species. The evaluation of severity of research procedures is discussed\, together with the issues surrounding cumulative severity and retrospective assessment of procedures. \nOnline only – Zoom 12-15th Jan 2026. Pre-course material will be available two weeks before the course starts.  \nWe highly recommend completion of the level 4 unit Physiology of pain and distress in laboratory animals\, and the level 5 unit Recognition of pain\, suffering and distress\, before attending this unit. \nCourse Details\nDiploma Credits: 30 \nIAT CPD Credits: 60 \nTutors: Paul Flecknell / Matt Leach \nYou will cover\n\nCurrent concepts:  pain\, distress and animal welfare\nNormal behavior\nMethods for assessing and recording the welfare of animals\nHumane end points\nSeverity classifications\nTeam approach\nMinimising pain and distress\n\nKey Skills you will develop\n\nAn understanding of current concepts of pain and distress and animal welfare\nAbility to recognise normal or desirable behaviour and appearance of animals\, and abnormal behaviour and signs of discomfort\, pain\, suffering\, or distress\nAbility to describe what a humane end point is and discuss their use\nAbility to describe the severity classifications\nKnowledge and understanding of the use of refinement to minimize welfare concerns\nKnowledge and understanding of effective welfare assessment strategies\n\n  \n*Further IAT fees may apply
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