MORE CPD OPPORTUNITIES

...Please visit the site and remember to record as this will justify your CPD

https://www.jax.o

rg/education-and-learning/course-and-conferences/minicourses

INACTIVATE/ACTIVATE IAs with HPRA. How is the cost affected by date of reactivation?

 As reminder on how the dates of the activation of an inactive individual authorisation affect fees?  See HPRA comments:

If these researchers return to NUIG in 2021 and require authorisation again, they will be required to pay the standard fee (i.e. €295) when submitting their application for reactivation of individual authorisation. They would then be included in the maintenance fee for 2022 (if they remain active in 2022).

If however they don’t return until 2022 and apply for reactivation, they will pay their fee upon application, but will not be included in the invoice for the individual maintenance fee in 2022 as they will have already paid a fee in that year.

If these individuals reactivate their individual authorisation after 30^th June 2022 they will not have been included in the individual maintenance fee for either 2021 or 2022, but they will pay the fee for reactivation of their individual authorisation in 2022, and will be included in the individual maintenance fee for 2023, etc. (if they remain active in 2023, etc.).

HPRA MAY21 REGULATORY UPDATE

 In with the new out with the old!!! Yes, there are new forms and guides for project authorisations and NTS (Non technical summaries). The NTS is in excel format might take a little time to get use to and the EU database is expected to be accessible from July 2021 onwards. Note that Old NTS not in the excel format are no longer accepted by the HPRA from the 01 August 2021.

This latest regulatory update has a wealth os useful links and 3Rs webinar and events that will greatly contribute to completing your CPD.

Have a look here

BACK TO SCHOOL- CPD TIME!!!

 

CPD:

Hmmm...Yes you are right ...your study days are not over yet! So much to learn!!!...so little time!!!

As a reminder ......

• CPD stands for Continuous Professional Development.
• CPD is measured in credits.
• Minimum Credits required  8/year or 40/5 years.
• Equivalence 1 credit = 1 hour of learning/attending.
• How to record? 
• Use the last section of you training record to list them. 
• Keep certificates of attendance if provided, or 
• If not, record the title, the source, the date, the duration and the take home messages from the course, webinar, conference.
• Send it to your Training Officer if you are not included in a project. If you are, then upload all docs in the Training folder of you project on SharePoint. 

Links:

Summer School-EQIPD

Research Animal Training: RAT

AALAS

NC3Rs Webinars

USEFUL STATISTICAL REFERENCES

Are you struggling with the start of your animal studies...check these links below, though actual papers  and additional information can be found in your library in your Sharepoint library: LAPBRU-USERS > REFERENCES-SOPs-3Rs > 3Rs INFORMATION > STATISTICS-EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN

For those needing extra references when dealing with statistics in in vivo research please see included some links:

Free to use statistical Software Package: InVivoStat

The practical alternative to the p-value is the correctly used p-value

G*Power: statistical power analysis

Calculating sample size

Calculating sample size for pilot studies

Pdf with information Advances in Methods and Practices in Psychological Science

Experimental design for animal research

Inaccurate effect size estimators

HPRA REGULATORY UPDATE- FEBRUARY 2021

The HPRA Regulatory Update is OUT so please have a quick look. This issue covers:

1. Non-compliance trends 2020
2. Update on Sap Processes:NTPS guidance and changes in the submission process as well as an alert on additional Project purposes changes.
3. Administrative issues on submissions and requests to HPRA
4. Final reminder on statistical returns submission and a word stressing that the submissions must include actual severity experienced by animals over prospective. This might require several entries (rows) in the returns document, please include them.
5. CPD solutions and the expectation that researchers complete ETPLAS e-learning modules that can be found here https://etplas.eu
6. ECVAM  and other replacement options updates in in vitro cellular and developmental Biology are very good resources worth dedicating your time.
7. Other useful links on webinars, event, updates, wikis that makes this update a relevant and a very useful reading.

Complete update please check you LAPBRU-USERS library.

In this occasion, please focus your attention on the NTPS take home messages:

• From 01.01.2021 all NTPS must be completed using a EC Excel template.
• Since a EC draft guidance was not available, the SAP Team -HPRA generated a word document, currently available on their website.
• The SAP Team -HPRA will transfer the information in the word documents of the projects already submitted to the EC Excel template.
• The EC Excel template will be available mid-March 2021
• From 12-4-21 all NTPs will need to be submitted in this template.

HPRA REGULATORY UPDATE- NOV20

Summary:

🎄 The HPRA will be closed for the Christmas Season from the 23rd of December to the 4th of January. 

💰There are no increases in the HPRA fees in general, though from now on, fees are payable per individual and per establishment.

👮The establishment can now provide a list of "inactive" individuals on HPRA's request. Information can be gathered by the establishments during the year and only facilitated when asked. Applications can subsequently be reactivated with non additional penalty associated to it. 

👮 There is a new template for the NTPS to facilitate a central, searchable EC-based database. All submissions from the 1-12-20 shall use this new template. No grace period is considered in this instance.

📚 PLEASE CHECK NEW UPDATES ON GUIDES AND APPLICATIONS!!!! The have been all updated.

📓Statistical returns for 2020 will use the same format used up until now, though it will change in 2021. A new form will be circulated soon so information is not lost from January 2021 onwards. The HPRA Regulatory Update explains more comprehensibly and in detail the new measures.

Please go to the main document there are several useful links in wide range of topics of interest!