Online Courses

While work is being done to our online courses website, courses are available for viewing in PDF format. Below is a list of the online courses that we offer, including descriptions of each course. To open either a course or an exam, simply click on the links provided below. To receive credit for a course completion, you must pass the corresponding exam with a score of 100%.

  • Animal Use Laws and Regulations Training

    This online course is designed primarily for persons performing research, teaching, or testing that involves the use of vertebrate animals. IACUC members, veterinarians, husbandry staff and anyone interested in learning more about how animal use must be conducted will likely find the course materials useful as well. The training covers many topics including ethics of animal experimentation, alternatives to the use of animals, and biohazards associated with animal experimentation.

    You must pass the corresponding exam with a 100% in order to fullfill this requirement.

  • Specific Pathogen Free (SPF) Procedures Training

    The online SPF procedures training is designed to provide personnel with the knowledge necessary to work within DCM specific pathogen free animal facilities housing rodents. As such, it is required for rodent users who house animals in DCM vivaria. It is required prior to initial entry authorization and it must be repeated annually for continued access.

    You must pass the corresponding exam with a 100% in order to fullfill this requirement.

  • Working with Mice at the University of Washington

    This web course is designed to provide important information about using laboratory mice in biomedical research settings and to help ensure their humane care and use.

    This course is the 1st of a 2-part series. After completing the online exam please register for the hands-on portion of the series titled 'Mouse Hands-on Laboratory.'

    The online portion of the Mouse Laboratory does not have specific course prerequisites, but in order to take the hands-on portion of the course you must first complete the online course and pass the online exam with a 100%.

  • Working with Rats at the University of Washington

    This web course is designed to provide important information about using laboratory rats in biomedical research settings and to help ensure their humane care and use.

    This course is the 1st of a 2-part series. After completing the online exam please register for the hands-on portion of the series.

    The online portion of the Rat Laboratory does not have specific course prerequisites, but in order to take the hands-on portion of the course you must first complete the online course and pass the online exam with a 100%.

  • Essentials for UW IACUC Members

    This course is part of the "Working with Laboratory Animals" instructional series funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Research and Development through the Medical Research Service. It is designed primarily for IACUC members and IACUC support administrators.

    This course addresses many topics that are based upon regulatory language which is itself subject to interpretation.

  • Grants Proposing Animal Use

    This training course was designed in order to provide you with information on grant related requirements and in order to help you avoid errors that delay the routing of grants and approval of eGC-1s by an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) member in the Office of Animal Welfare.