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!

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CRACK IT!

Up to £3.5 million funding is available to solve five Challenges identified jointly by the NC3Rs and Sponsors....and CRACK IT. For more information on the challenges: https://nc3rs.org.uk/news/crack-it-challenges-2020-announced

NC3Rs JUL20

New ARRIVE Guidelines, the ARRIVE guidelines have been revised and improved in ARRIVE 2.0 with a new website......if you do not want to read but being told then register in their webinar that takes place on Tuesday 18 August at 14:00.

This months issue of NC3Rs also includes  advice on how to embed the 3Rs in Covid-19 return to work practices, funding for training Fellowships and a webinar on Best Practice in Experimental design and much more.

Please visit the NC3Rs for more information...always time well spent!!!