All new potential PPL applicants/holders should be aware there is a requirement for you to complete the relevant PIL course for the work you intend to perform in your project licence. This is only the case if you are not already a PIL holder.
PPL Course
Elements
1. Further ethics and animal welfare
2. Experimental design
- Refinement
- Reduction
- Replacement
3. Project Licence completion
- Plan of work
- Good Laboratory practice
- Appropriate laboratory methods
- Selection of appropriate animal models
- Appropriate statistical methods
4. Project Licence management
- Responsibilities
- Supervision of personnel and programme of work
- Record keeping requirements
- Annual return of procedures
5. Legal aspects - the European and - and wider international context