Training the Trainer Hands-on Workshop
Essential Rodent Handling Techniques

June 29, 2019
Half-day Workshops (Group A: morning or Group B: afternoon)
Each workshop will accept limited number of participants – Up to 15 persons!

Location: Room 106 and 216, Central Animal Facility, Faculty of Science,
Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand
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The Thai Association for Laboratory Animal Science in collaboration with Faculty of Science, Mahidol University organizes this international workshop for personnel especially veterinarians or veterinary technologists who are responsible for providing training to research scientists or staff who involve in rodent handling and basic techniques needed for their approved protocols.

Workshop Key Instructors:

• Dr. Alan Lee Chedester, DVM, DACLAM
  National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health (NIAAA, NIH), U.S.A.
• Dr. Susan Vogel, M.S., DVM, DACVS
  Charles River Safety Assessment, Canada

The workshops will demonstrate the training techniques used at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health, U.S.A. and Charles River, Canada to familiarize new investigators and animal care staff with techniques commonly used with rats and mice. There is often a difference being good at doing something, and being good at TEACHING others to do it.

Certificates: Certificates of Attendance will be provided.

Goals: This workshop is intended for those who are already experienced in most of the techniques listed below, but would like see some of the methods used to TEACH them to investigators and care staff. The participants will be 2 to 3 persons per group and each will have assignment to 1-2 mice and 1-2 rats per person. Subjects/techniques to be covered
include:

• Becoming comfortable handling rats and mice
• Basic restraint and visual examination
• Animal Identification:
  • Ear tags, Ear notches, Tattoo, Subcutaneous Microchip injection
• Compound/drug administration:
  • Subcutaneous, Intramuscular, Intravenous, and Intraperitoneal injections
  • Gastric gavage
• Sample collections:
  • Urine, Feces, Mandibular and tail vein blood collection
  • Tissue collection for DNA testing