Strategies That Influence Cost Containment in Animal Research Facilities (2000) / Chapter Skim
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Furthermore, there is a growing shortage of experienced, trained laboratory animal medicine veterinarians because of increased demand and a decrease in training positions. The 1999 ARS, conducted by the Yale University School of Medicine's Section of Comparative Medicine, does not contain sufficient details to determine a staffing configuration most likely to produce a cost-effective, high-quality animal care and use program in an institution, but it does provide useful information on the general description of contemporary staffing practices and serves as the basis of the committee's comments and recommendations in this regard.
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That has stimulated the integration of professional managers into the modern research animal organization to allow veterinary professionals to concentrate on scientific collaboration, enhancing research services, advancing the program of veterinary care, institutional interactions, and other dimensions of program direction. Use of full-time or part-time professional business managers is key to the development of sound business practices that could result in significant cost savings.
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ANIMAL CARE STAFF The number and quality of animal care personnel are crucial to an institution's ability to maintain the high-quality animal care and use program necessary in today's sophisticated research environment, and institutions appear to make a concerted effort to keep these positions filled. For example, of the 1,413 positions for animal care personnel allocated among the institutions participating in the 1999 ARS, only 71 (5%)
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It can be accomplished through on-thejob training or other inhouse training efforts or through staff participation in a national certification program sponsored by the American Association for Laboratory Animal Science (AALAS)
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There, animal care technicians, animal care managers, veterinary technicians, the veterinary staff, and the administration have, on the basis of customer and staff satisfaction and improved morale, become convinced that it is a superior management method. Although this method might prove to be widely adaptable across diverse recruitment and staffing conditions, it should be noted that attainment of a BS or Associate Degree in Animal Technology was a requirement for employment on the animal care staff at the University of
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Each member has a stake in the successes or failures of the team, and all members participate in problem solving when new challenges or opportunities are placed before the team. As team management concepts have become more accepted, managers, team leaders, and animal care staff have undergone shifts in outlook that have strengthened and streamlined animal care.
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, mean direct salary was $23,697; at the 31 institutions where staff were largely or completely nonunionized, annual salary was $21,173, a statistically significant difference (p<0.05~. In the institutions surveyed, the mean number of vacation days for animal care staff was 15.6/year, plus 11.9 paid sick days, 9.7 paid holidays, 0.9 other recess days, and 1.6 personal days, for a total of nearly 40 days/year.
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With respect to retention of animal care technicians, animal care managers rated earning potential as the most important factor (70%) followed by career opportunity (65%)
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· The application of the team management approach (University of Michigan study) suggests that institutions should be encouraged to apply modern management techniques to enhance investigator (customer)
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