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The Veterinary Bioscience Institute (VBI) is an approved continuing education provider American Association of Veterinary State Boards. VBI's courses, webinars and workshops also meet the requirements for Continuing Education Units of ASR, CALAS and AALAS. VBI's training also meets the following standards: ISO9000, cGLP, the 2010 Guide and Council of Europe's Directive 86/609 (ETS 123).

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Fundamentals of Rodent Surgery Webinar presented by the Veterinary Bioscience Institute January 18, 2013
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Introduction to Basic Principles of Large Animal and Rodent (mouse and rat) Laparoscopy through Inanimate Object Training October 26, 2009
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Neonatal mouse stereotaxic atlas July 28, 2009
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Daily water and food intake of mice July 26, 2009
Rats and vomiting July 25, 2009
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Assessment of surgical competence in the LAS and biomedical fields July 07, 2009
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Guide to developing and implementing E-learning courses on rodent surgical training July 06, 2009
Laboratory Animal Welfare Training Exchange (LAWTE) Conference July 04, 2009
An introduction to electronic learning and its use to address challenges in surgical training July 03, 2009
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Rodent Survival Surgery Resources March 15, 2009
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7th Annual Regional eLearning 2.0 Conference March 03, 2009
Basic Principles of Rodent Surgery course receives CE credit approval from the Canadian Association for Laboratory Animal Science March 03, 2009
Brown Norway rat model of pneumonic plague February 27, 2009
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Mice and humans are equally skilled at assessing odds February 24, 2009
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Bone Marrow Transplantation Techniques in Mice February 11, 2009
Number of animals in research February 03, 2009
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The Guide and rodent surgery January 22, 2009
Rodent Osmotic Mini-pump Implantation Workshop at the University of Pennsylvania January 18, 2009
Sources of rodent surgical instruments January 16, 2009
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Continuing Education Credits for Basic Principles of Rodent Surgery Course January 15, 2009
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Modified Tail-clip Blood Collection in Mice January 15, 2009
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Mice and humans are equally skilled at assessing odds

Posted by: admin | February 25, 2009 | 0 Comments

 

We mentioned previously that our online course, ‘Basic Principles of Rodent Surgery,’ has been approved by the American Association of Veterinary State Boards (AAVSB) Registry of Approved Continuing Education (RACE) committee for 5 Continuing Education Credits for veterinarians and veterinary technicians and by the Director of the Professional Development of the American Association of Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS) for 5 AALAS Continuing Education Units (CEU).

 

We are also pleased to announce that the Canadian Association for Laboratory Animal Science (CALAS) approved this course, ‘Basic Principles of Rodent Surgery,’ for 3 CALAS Continuing Education Units (CEU). As usual, if you participate in the ‘interactive’ course, you should keep track of your participation hours and submit this number for your CEU.



Fuat Balci, David Freestone, and Charles R. Gallistel of Rutgers University report that
mice and humans are as equally proficient when faced with the task of learning which location is the best place to obtain a reward:

Human
and mouse subjects tried to anticipate at which of 2 locations a reward would
appear. On a randomly scheduled fraction of the trials, it appeared with a
short latency at one location; on the complementary fraction, it appeared after
a longer latency at the other location. Subjects of both species accurately
assessed the exogenous uncertainty (the probability of a short versus a long
trial) and the endogenous uncertainty (from the scalar variability in their
estimates of an elapsed duration) to compute the optimal target latency for a
switch from the short- to the long-latency location. 

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