Forms

The forms below are current.  Submissions received on outdated forms will be returned to the PI without review.  

Forms must be emailed to jwhitloc@mcg.edu by the submission deadline to be reviewed by the IACUC's next convened meeting.  Expedited Review - The committee discourages this type of review.  An email must be sent to Ms. Jenny Whitlock explaining "the urgency for the expedited review".

The following format can be downloaded and responses added directly in the form.  Please save and name your document and submit to Jenny Whitlock as an e-mail attachment (jwhitloc@mcg.edu),  Thank you

• Animal Use Protocol Form - (MS Word)
  Please review the most common problems and omissions in preparing the animal use protocol forms.  (Literature search summary example)
• Breeding Addendum - (MS Word).  A breeding addendum
  form must be submitted for each experimental protocol & sent with the experimental protocol as an email attachment. 
• Tissue/Embryo Use Only - (MS Word)

• Amendment form (Add title and/or Funding Agency only) - Approved administratively by IACUC Chair
• Amendment form (major/minor)
• Surgery and Anesthesia Form
  
• Animal Room Log
  
• Controlled Drugs Log Sheet
  
  

Ten tips for speeding up approval of your AUP application

Amendments - Researchers are to inform the IACUC of changes in their approved AUP. It is the responsibility of the PI to submit changes to the IACUC. It is common practice to confer with the attending veterinarian for guidance as to whether it needs to be approved by the entire IACUC or whether a new AUP is required.  Amendments are defined in two categories “Major or Minor”.  

The Attending Veterinarian and the IACUC Chairman will approve a minor amendment administratively.

The following are examples of minor changes and may be approved by the attending veterinarian and IACUC Chair.

• A change in the personnel other than PI
• A small (<10%) increase in the number of rats/mice to be used
•  A minor change in technique that does not change the level of pain

The entire IACUC Committee at the next scheduled convened meeting will review a major amendment. 

The following are examples of major changes that are to be presented to the entire IACUC. If several significant changes occur, it may warrant submission of a new AUP. 

• Examples of changes considered to be significant include, but are not limited to, changes:
  
• in the objectives of a study
• from non survival to survival surgery;
• resulting in greater discomfort or in a greater degree of invasiveness;
• in the species or in approximate number of animals used;
• in Principal Investigator;
• in anesthetic agent(s) or the use or withholding of analgesics;
• in the method of euthanasia; and
• in the duration, frequency, or number of procedures performed on an animal.

 

 

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