{"id":512,"date":"2023-04-26T21:15:40","date_gmt":"2023-04-26T21:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/research\/?page_id=512"},"modified":"2024-12-18T17:52:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T17:52:59","slug":"certification-and-training-for-animal-users","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/research\/institutional-animal-care-and-use-committee-iacuc\/certification-and-training-for-animal-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Certification and training for animal users"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"nau-block nau-block-left-nav-top-bound\">\n    \t<button id=\"left-nav-toggle-btn\" onclick=\"toggleNav();\">\n\t\tON THIS PAGE \n\t\t<i id=\"chevron-icon\" class=\"fas fa-solid fa-chevron-down\"><\/i>\n\t<\/button>\n\t<div id=\"left-nav-menu-track\">\n\t\t<div id=\"left-nav-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"rfi-above-anchor-tags\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"ri-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nau.edu\/admissions\/request-information\/\" id=\"request-info\" 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investigator<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Fill out the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/research\/institutional-animal-care-and-use-committee-iacuc\/occupational-health-form\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"4615\">Occupational health questionnaire<\/a><\/li><li>Read the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/research\/safety-compliance-institutional-review-board__trashed\/institutional-animal-care-and-use-committee-iacuc\/instructions-for-registering-for-the-citi-tutorial\/\" data-type=\"page\" data-id=\"514\">Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative&nbsp;(CITI) instructions<\/a>&nbsp;to register with the CITI program<\/li><li>Take the following required courses:<ul><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/about.citiprogram.org\/en\/homepage\/\" target=\"_blank\">CITI working with animals course<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/about.citiprogram.org\/en\/homepage\/\" target=\"_blank\">Working with the IACUC: Investigators, Staff and Students \u2013 Basic Course<\/a>&nbsp;<\/li><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/about.citiprogram.org\/en\/homepage\/\" target=\"_blank\">Animal Subjects Research (RCR)- Basic Course<\/a> <\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>A certification to use animals in research expires every three years. Animal users who are renewing their certification must complete the <a href=\"https:\/\/about.citiprogram.org\/en\/homepage\/\">Working with the IACUC: Investigators, Staff and Students \u2013 Basic Course<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Biological Sciences Annex (BSA) offers training for personnel who have completed the IACUC Certification Test and health questionnaire. For personnel who need access to the BSA, occupational health, security, and general facility\/IACUC, policy training is required. All other training courses are project specific and are offered as needed:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>occupational health (Including zoonotic risks)<\/li><li>security training<\/li><li>CITI species-specific courses (mice, rats, amphibians, fish, wildlife, swine)<\/li><li>I \u2013 general facility\/IACUC policy<\/li><li>Ia \u2013 mouse<\/li><li>Ib \u2013 rat<\/li><li>Ic \u2013 frog<\/li><li>IIa \u2013 injections<\/li><li>IIb \u2013 blood collection techniques<\/li><li>IIc \u2013 ear- or web-marking techniques<\/li><li>IId \u2013 oral gavage (koken rat)<\/li><li>IIIa \u2013 anesthesia administration<\/li><li>IIIb \u2013 guidelines on euthanasia<\/li><li>IIIc \u2013 oral gavage (gastric intubation)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<section id=\"resources\"        class=\"nau-article-block-simple-color-text-photo bg-true-blue \">\n    \n\n    \n        <hr role=\"none\" class=\"hr-clearspace-20 d-none-md\">\n\n        <h3>Resources<\/h3>                <ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/research\/institutional-animal-care-and-use-committee-iacuc\/animal-care-and-use-training-courses-2\/\" data-rich-text-format-boundary=\"true\">Training courses information<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n    \n\n<\/section>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<div class=\"nau-block nau-block-left-nav-bottom-bound\">\n\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":276,"featured_media":2806,"parent":501,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","ring_central_script_selection":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-512","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":39,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6497,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/512\/revisions\/6497"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}