Annual Re-Certification of Research Personnel. Using Animals form prior to July 1 st of each year. In this way current inventories of active research personnel, and evidence of their continuing education and training can be provided to reviewers of our program of animal care and use. The Principal Investigator and their research staff serve as the attending clinicians of animals housed on behalf of their research protocols.
Clinicians attend to their patients.
The Principal Investigator must ensure that their research staff regularly visits, monitors, humanely cares for and treats the animals within their colonies. The Principal Investigator and their research staff know better than anyone does the purpose for which animals are held on their behalf, the present stage of their ongoing investigation, and the clinical state of each animal involved. Adequate animal care includes adequate medical record keeping. The Principal Investigator using non-rodent mammals must ensure that their research staff maintains complete medical records. Weekly entries and monthly clinical re-characterizations are required.