So you

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So youre a TBR (or Whats a TBR)

• Whats Next?

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Role of the TBR from the AALAS Website

• Demonstrates a positive attitude for animal care
  through technical performance and education
• Participates in the AALAS Certification process

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Role of the TBR from the AALAS Website

• Assists in training of fellow technicians
• Promotes and participates in continuing animal
  care related education

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• What I discovered was that I had become the
  conduit between the Branch and the technicians in
  the field

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Tools that I found Helpful

• Networking
• Getting out and talking to technicians to
  discover their greatest obstacles and or
  frustrations
• Recruited a Core of Peers
• to assist in brain storming to discover methods
  to over come the obstacles/frustration faced by
  the technicians
• Helped assist me in the implementation process

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Tools that I found Helpful

• Find a Mentor
• To challenge and keep you focused and on track!
• Advertise
• Online
• Email
• Snail Mail
• Word of mouth

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Work Shops

• Workshops were directed at all levels of
  technical expertise and office staff to
  participate. Consisted of lecture and actual
  hands on experience
• Rodent Handling
• Surgery and Anesthesia
• Euthanasia
• Nonhuman Primate Enrichment
• Rabbits
• Ferrets

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ALAT/LAT Class

• Weekly Class
• 50-60 participants
• Team building and a sense of Comrade
• Study teams

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Round one takes questions form the AALAS ALAT
manual with Round two fielding questions from the
AALAS LAT Manual. Round three is a one question
"Final Jeopardy" set where you can bet as little
or as many points earned in the previous rounds.
Rounds one and two have "Daily Double" questions
where you can wager up to your current point
level.
ALAT/LAT Jeopardy 2008
First round
SINGLE JEOPARDY
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
FINAL JEOPARDY
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SINGLE JEOPARDY
Animal Care and Use
Animal Facility
Husbandry
What's the Acronym?
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DOUBLE JEOPARDY
HOME
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Name two methods for inhibiting the growth of
bacteria in animals water bottles
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What is acidification and chlorination
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During this period Lab animal personnel perform
health status evaluations, and monitor new
arrivals for any sign of disease
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What is quarantine?
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Are animals in quarantine handled first or last
in the day?
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What is Last?
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Racks with built in cages should be washed how
often
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What is every two weeks?
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CTAD

Daily Double
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What is Committee on Technician Awareness
Development?
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ALAT/LAT Rapid Fired

• The game provides a very fun and effective study
  aid for group competitions, but can be equally
  enjoyed by individuals.

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• 1 The word "hyperglycemia", has the suffix
  ___, the root ___, and the prefix _____.
•   A. emia glyc hyper
• B. hyper emia glyc
• C. ia glycem hyper
• D. glyc mia hyper

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• 2 Research cattle are used in cardiovascular
  studies, especially in the development of __?
•   A. arrhythmia drugs
• B. cardiovascular stents
• C. artificial hearts
• D. venous grafts

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• 3 The federal agency which regulates the use
  of biohazardous pathogens and publishes
  guidelines for the handling of organisms and
  infected animals is the ___.
•   A. USDA
• B. CDC
• C. APHIS
• D. FDA

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• 4 The special fat that is found in newborns
  and some young adult animals that can be
  metabolized very rapidly to provide heat to
  increase or maintain body temperature is called
  ___.
•   A. yellow fat
• B. brown fat
• C. thermal fat
• D. energy fat

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• 5 Which of the following anatomic features is
  normally seen in New World monkeys?
•   A. cheek pouches
• B. callous pads
• C. eyes open downward
• D. nostrils open to the front or
  sides

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• 8 When TB testing non-human primates, the
  route of administration of tuberculin into the
  eyelid is ______.
•   A. intradermal
• B. subcutaneous
• C. intramuscular
• D. intraocular

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• 9 The desired genetic makeup of the offspring
  is a factor determining the type of breeding
  system needed
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• TRUE
• FALSE

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Technician Fair

• Survivor
• Clue
• Trivia Pursuit

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OUT-ALAT OUT-LAT
SURVIVOR
TURF VALLEY - NCAB
OUT-LATG
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Survivor

• Well we brought the hit TV show from exotic
  locales around the world straight into the NCAB
  seminar.
• Teams were broken into 4 tribes and pitted their
  resourcefulness, creativity and determination
  against each other to win immunity to determine
  the ultimate survivor.

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Survivor

• Instead of throwing spears, the strategy and
  teamwork of the tribes were challenged by
  hilarious contest ranging from showing off their
• PPE skills blind folded,
• husbandry skills, controlling a re-mote control
  mouse through a
• maze of cones while being chased by a cat,
• demonstrating blow-gun techniques
• to finally eating mouth watering monkey treats.
• The Game features over 6 challenges that was done
  in three separate rooms. Because there's no
  trivia component, it encourages all level of
  technicians to get off the sidelines and into the
  game in a way that's was fun, highly competitive
  and, at the final Tribal council, highly
  rewarding.

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CLUE

• The classic whodunit board game! Poor Dr.
  Do-Little has been murdered in his own animal
  Facility. Who could have done it? And how? And
  where?

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Clue

• With six suspects, the Untouchable PI, Animal
  Tech, Caretaker, Chair of the IACUC, Facility
  Manager, and/or the Cage Wash Foreman. Six
  possible murder weapons were found within nine
  rooms in the vivarium, there are hundreds of
  possibilities, and plenty of clues that were
  investigated!

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Trivial Pursuit

• Trivial Pursuit was simple yet a very interactive
  game for the technicians.

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Trivial Pursuit

• The Board was reproduced by taping it out on the
  floor and the pie pieces were given out as they
  answered the correct questions. We were able to
  push the game players' wits to the limit.

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Monthly Meetings

• We saw a dramatic increase of Technicians
  actively participating in the meetings and
  started to actively seek out positions in our
  Branch
• Meetings not solely devoted to scientific
  discussions enticing technicians to attend such
  as
• Night out at National Medical Museum
• Meeting held at the National Zoo with Tours

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Conclusion

• Have fun by actively engaging the technicians to
  find out what they would like to see happen in
  the branch And try to make it happen by thinking
  out of the box!

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Questions

• My Contact information
• Ted Plemons
• plemonst_at_nei.nih.gov
• 301-496-3686