IACUC Institute: Improving Oversight of Animal Care and Use Programs Through Active Learning

IACUC 研究所：通过主动学习改善动物护理和使用计划的监督

• 批准号: 1546975
• 负责人: Elisa Hurley
• 金额: $ 13.63万
• 依托单位: Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-01 至 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1546975&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: IACUC; Institute; Improving; Oversight; Animal

Changes in federal regulations present challenges to Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees' (IACUCs) abilities to effectively meet their responsibility for the oversight of animal care and use programs at the nation's biomedical research institutions. Often IACUCs are unaware of new regulations or have a limited understanding of the extent of their authority---both of these factors can affect their institutional compliance with federal guidelines. Directed efforts to improve IACUC training are required so that all IACUC members are engaged, highly knowledgeable, and confident in their role in assuring compliance with animal welfare regulations. Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research (PRIM&R), an educational nonprofit organization, will develop the Train the Trainer IACUC Institute (TTII) in which a large cohort of national IACUC trainers will be trained to incorporate active and peer-directed learning in their educational activities.The specific activities of the TTII are to: 1) hold focused training sessions to teach existing IACUC trainers to practice effective instruction using active learning techniques that have been shown to increase knowledge transfer and to encourage IACUC trainers to incorporate these active and peer-directed learning methods into their own courses and educational sessions for IACUC members and staff; and 2) to develop and utilize meaningful metrics that enable assessment and improvement of IACUC training programs. The ultimate goal of the TTII is to improve oversight of animal care and use programs nationwide by ensuring that oversight activities by IACUCs accurately reflect current regulatory standards and equipping IACUC members and staff with the knowledge and confidence to reduce regulatory burden while maintaining compliance with federal laws and standards.

联邦法规的变化对机构动物护理和使用委员会（IACUCs）有效履行其监督国家生物医学研究机构动物护理和使用项目的责任提出了挑战。通常，IACUCs不知道新的法规，或者对自己的权力范围了解有限——这两个因素都会影响他们对联邦指导方针的机构遵守。需要有针对性地改进IACUC的培训，以便所有IACUC成员都参与其中，知识渊博，并对确保遵守动物福利法规的作用充满信心。非营利教育组织“医学与研究公共责任”（PRIM&amp；R）将开发“培训IACUC培训师研究所”（TTII），培训一大批IACUC国家培训师，将积极和同侪指导的学习纳入他们的教育活动。TTII的具体活动是：1)举办重点培训课程，教授现有的IACUC培训人员使用主动学习技术进行有效的教学，这些技术已被证明可以增加知识转移，并鼓励IACUC培训人员将这些主动和同伴指导的学习方法纳入他们自己的课程和IACUC成员和员工的教育课程中；2)开发和利用有意义的指标来评估和改进IACUC的培训项目。TTII的最终目标是通过确保IACUC的监督活动准确反映当前的监管标准，并为IACUC成员和工作人员提供知识和信心，以减轻监管负担，同时保持对联邦法律和标准的遵守，从而改善对全国动物护理和使用项目的监督。