Practice and Exploration of Laboratory Animal and Laboratory Safety Training for Medical Freshmen

Abstract

Laboratory animal and laboratory safety management in medical colleges and universities is the basic guarantee for the safe operation of teaching laboratories and serves as an important link for the successful completion of teaching tasks in laboratories. Aiming at the safety status of common experimental animals and laboratories, the Experimental Teaching Center of Basic Medical College of Zhengzhou University trained medical freshmen on the characteristics of experimental animals and laboratory safety knowledge. PowerPoint courses, short video lectures, and flipped classrooms were used for offline training. The training contents included the correct use of experimental animals, safety management and laboratory safety knowledge. After training, an online examination was conducted, which 1 061 freshmen passed, and the passing rate was 99.90%. According to the analysis of the answers of the freshmen in the examination, the error rates of knowledge on microorganisms and dangerous chemicals were 20.35% and 14.89%, respectively. This suggests that training should be strengthened in these two aspects in the future. Through the training, the new medical students mastered the correct use of experimental animals, and their knowledge of laboratory safety increased. This will help to prevent future laboratory accidents.

Keywords

• laboratory animals
• laboratory
• safety training
• medical freshmen