TRAINING
Responsible Care and Use of Laboratory Animals Course
Certification course to use lab animals in Singapore
NACLAR Compliant. RCULAC training is a prerequisite for all staff who wish to use animals at A*STAR Research Entities and Biopolis for Scientific Purposes.
To register complete the registration form (Link) and submit the form rculac@brc.a-star.edu.sg
Course Content
Theory
Course with a quiz at the end of each chapter. Each quiz must be passed to proceed to the next chapter.
Personnel must NOT have any rodents (e.g. mice, rats, hamsters, guinea pigs), rabbits, chinchillas or swine as pets. In addition, personnel must NOT have contacted other rodents, rabbits, chinchillas and swine for at least 2 full days prior to entering BRC.
Personnel must NOT have been in an animal facility (other than those under BRC's AVS license) using rodents, rabbits, chinchillas and swine for at least 2 full days prior to entering BRC. For personnel taking the hands-on sessions at D3, at least 2 full days quarantine is required from D2 and all other BRC AVS licensed sites.
Personnel must NOT have engaged in any leisure pursuit involving zoo or farm animals, or have contacted earth, refuse or any animal waste products for at least 2 full days prior to entering BRC.
If you have certain animal procedure that you will like to carry out but do not have the necessary experience and expertise, we are here to help!
We conduct customized, tailor-made, hands on, fee for service training sessions on various animal procedures. Contact us for more information and to arrange for an appointment to discuss your needs:
rculac@brc.a-star.edu.sg
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