Surgery in rodents is challenging, and specialized skills, training and experience are required to establish a reliable and reproducible surgical model. It requires knowledge on anatomy and physiology, and a broad understanding of good surgical practice, including asepsis, reduction of trauma, hemostasis, anesthesia, and analgesia. 
Yet, in preclinical rodent research, proper surgical training is often replaced by a chain of peer training where inexperienced staff members learn a surgical procedure from more experienced coworkers, who themselves were once trained by coworkers. This learning strategy is prone to propagation of procedural mistakes and faulty assumptions leading to unnecessary animal suffering, poor surgical outcomes, and, ultimately, unreliable research data.
Exemplified by the unpublished reality behind the optimization and refinement of a dual-catheter infusion/sampling model in mice, this webinar will demonstrate the limitations of the peer training strategy and show how reliable and reproducible