Customized training for lab animal programs

Training built around your staff and your SOPs, on-site or virtual.

ACTS teaches technical skills, professional etiquette, regulatory knowledge and AALAS exam prep, and can build trainers inside your own team.

Masked technician holding Twirl, a rat from a training colony that helps researchers learn to handle rats humanely

What training covers

  • Hands-on technique training: intubation, anesthesia, vascular access and identification
  • Train the Trainer, to build trainers within your own staff
  • Proficiency and competency assessment, with records for IACUC requirements and site visits
  • Professional etiquette for animal care staff
  • Regulatory knowledge
  • AALAS exam preparation
  • Species-specific seminars across common research species
“ACTS created a Train-the-Trainer Program for UTHSC, with the goal of ensuring the new Coordinator position had the skills necessary for the successful delivery of ongoing training.”
Steven Youngentob, Senior Associate Vice Chancellor, UT Health Sciences

Who teaches it

ACTS pairs lab animal professionals with learning specialists: technical trainers, e-learning developers and curriculum designers.

ACTS has conducted more than 5,000 trainings and served more than 120 lab animal care and use programs.

Questions about customized training

Do you train on-site or virtually?

Both. Training runs on-site at your institution or virtually, and follows your SOPs and protocols.

Do you offer AALAS exam prep?

Yes. AALAS exam prep is part of ACTS’s customized training programs.

How is Train the Trainer different from technique training?

Technique training teaches your staff hands-on procedures. Train the Trainer prepares your experienced technicians to teach those procedures to others. See Train the Trainer.

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