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Animal Care and Use CITI Training

All personnel working with live animals under an IACUC protocol must take the following courses as assigned through REPORTER for required training. "Working with the IACUC" and an associated species specific module if applicable. This includes faculty, postdoctoral associates, graduate students, NC State staff (e.g., animal care and husbandry technicians) and undergraduate students who work with animals.

How to Access CITI Training

Please contact the IACUC office at iacuc_office@ncsu.edu to assign the course for you or your personnel through REPORTER.

Required Courses

Working with the IACUC

Working with the IACUC is intended for laboratory research personnel who will write animal-use protocols for review by an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) member or who will handle animals under such protocols. It provides basic information regarding the U.S. regulations for protection of animal subjects used in research, teaching, and testing. It also describes the sources and applicability of regulations governing animals in these uses.

In addition, it discusses the role, authority, and composition of the IACUC, the types of IACUC review, and the items of information required for the review. It discusses animal surgery, blood sample collection, antibody production, and euthanasia.

This course is required to be renewed every 3 years.

Species Specific Courses

The following are required species specific courses to provide users with in-depth information about the animals they will be working with. The IACUC office will assign the appropriate course during review of new or 3 year rewrite protocols. These courses are required to be renewed every 3 years.

  • Working with Cats in Research Settings
  • Working with Dogs in Research Settings
  • Working with Mice in Research Settings
  • Working with Rabbits in Research Settings
  • Working with Rats in Research Settings
  • Working with Sheep and Goats in Research Settings (biomedical research)
  • Working with Swine in Research Settings (biomedical research)
  • Working With Zebrafish (Danio rerio) in Research Settings

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