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| Ready to get certified?!?! To fulfill a personal goal, increased salary potential, career advancement, acknowledgment of your competency in laboratory animal sciences. This page site is to help answer some basic questions about getting specific certifications. Please note that AALAS has the most up-to-date information regarding the Tech and CMAR series certifications. ALAT, LAT, LATG How to start: Education and Work Experience Requirements | ALAT | No high school diploma or GED | +2 years laboratory animal science experience | HS diploma or GED | +1 year laboratory animal science experience | Any college degree of 2 or more years duration | +0.5 year laboratory animal science experience | LAT | HS diploma or GED | +3 years laboratory animal science experience | Any AA/AS degree | +2 years laboratory animal science experience | Any BA/BS or higher degree | +1 year laboratory animal science experience | ALAT certification plus HS diploma/GED, or college or higher degree | +0.5 year after receiving ALAT certification | ALAT certification without HS diploma/GED, or any college degree | +2 years after receiving ALAT certification | LATG | HS diploma or GED | +5 years laboratory animal science experience | Any AA/AS degree | +4 years laboratory animal science experience | Any BA/BS or higher degree | +3 years laboratory animal science experience | LAT certification plus HS diploma or GED, or college or higher degree | +0.5 year after receiving LAT certification |
A year's worth of work experience is equivalent to 1950 hours. The CRB allows for experience in non-laboratory animal environment (up to 3 years) to be applied to the required work experience using the following equation. 0.5 year in a non-lab animal environment = 1 month of lab animal experience Documentation must be provided for all diplomas/degrees. Non-U.S. diplomas/degrees will be evaluated for equivalency and may be referred to the CRB. Applicants must have a high school diploma or GED to be eligible to take the LATG exam. - View the various exams' content
Decide which exam to pursue, purchase study material from AALAS or receive from your institution's training center.
How to study: AALAS indicates that proper study time for ALAT is about 6 months. Self-Study Classroom/Group Study AALAS Learning Library
How to take the exam: When you feel prepared to take the test, visit AALAS or the Technician handbook for specific examination details. Quick Summary: Fill out and submit (with money) the Tech Cert Application. In about 4-6 weeks, AALAS will send an Authorization to Test letter. From then you will have 90 days to complete your test. Your letter will include directions on how to register to take the test at a testing center close to you.
After the exam: If you obtain AALAS certification at any level, you will automatically become “registered” for a two-year period. You will receive both Registry and Certification cards from the AALAS office shortly after your exam date. Once you are entered into the Registry, you must acquire the required number of CEUs for your certification level by the expiration date of your Registry period (ALAT: 10, LAT: 14, and LATG: 24). This expiration date can be found on your Registry card. The “R” (registered) in front of the certification acronym will be your entitlement of Registry participation. CEUs can be earned by participating in the following activities: | Formal Education/Personal & Professional Development | | Scientific, professional, or branch meeting/conference | 1 CEU/ classroom lecture hour | Any in-house or outside course, workshop, wetlab, audio/
visual or hands-on program related to laboratory animal
science, management, or veterinary medicine
(Topics included but not limited to are lab equipment, regulatory or quality assurance, occupational or environmental health and safety, communications, computer, office equipment, fiscal management, personnel management and labor relations) | 1 CEU/ classroom lecture hour | | Any life sciences or management-related college course | 1 CEU/ classroom lecture hour | | Journal of AALAS Continuing Education Test Questions | 2 CEUs per issue | | AALAS Learning Library course (CEUs are granted upon completion of the course and passing the exam.) | CEUs as posted on the ALL | Evaluated by Certification and Registry Board Committee on a case-by-case basis
• International Formal Education
• Correspondence or on-line learning courses |
| | Publications, Reports, Presentations & Item Writing | | First author of article or book chapter in a refereed publication | 10 CEUs per publication | Any other author of article or book chapter in a refereed
publication | 5 CEUs per publication | | Technical/Management article published in Tech Talk, branch newsletter or similar published product | 4 CEUs per publication | Paper, lecture, poster presentation or workshop leader at a
meeting/conference (Presented at LAMA, AALAS National, District, Regional or Branch Meeting, ABR local chapter, school presentation or other relevant meeting.) | 4 CEUs per program | | Referee/Reviewer of journal article or program | 2 CEUs per program | | In-house Presenter/Course Instructor (AALAS certification or other relevant topic areas). | 2 CEUs per lecture hour | | Public Outreach (ABR local chapter, school presentation, job fair, not-for-profit organization) | 1 CEU/contact hour | | Item writing for AALAS certification exams or Journal of AALAS Continuing Education Test | 1 CEUs per item submitted |
| | Professional Society Participation | | National AALAS officer, trustee, or committee member | 6 CEUs per year per position | | Officer or committee member of an AALAS Branch, affiliated organization or other related organizations. | 4 CEUs per year per position | | Program facilitator or moderator | 1 CEU |
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Documenting your CEUs can be done in two forms: Online (enter through Member Login at AALAS)
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| CMAR How to start: Visit AALAS and ICPM to view eligibility requirements
How to study: How to take the exam: After the exam: In order to maintain their CMAR designation, CMAR recipients will have annual requirements of a re-certification fee and a specified number of continuing education credits. 24 CEUs are required every two years. | Formal Education/Personal Development Courses | | Any course or program related to laboratory animal science, veterinary medicine, laboratory animal management, or other related life science field | 1 per classroom/ lecture hour | | Any scientific/professional meeting or conference related to laboratory animal science, veterinary medicine, laboratory animal management, or other related life science field | 1 per classroom/ lecture hour | | In-house training courses (International formal education will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis.) | 1 per classroom/ lecture | | Veterinary technician review articles and tests | 0.5 per issue | | AALAS or AALAS-endorsed educational programs: | | JAALAS continuing education modules
Institute for Laboratory Animal Management (ILAM)
Redlands LATG correspondence course
Technician Fun Fair at National Meeting
Train the Trainer Session | 2 per issue
32 per level
3 per unit completed
4 per meeting
1 per classroom/ lecture hour | | Correspondence courses | | | | Purina Laboratory Animal Care Course (Any other correspondence course CEU values will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis by the Certification & Registry Board) | 6 | | College courses related to lab animal science, veterinary medicine, laboratory animal management, or other related life science field | 9/semester hour or 6/quarter hour | | Short courses, seminars, audio/visuals, or auto-tutorial programs at an AALAS National Meeting, AALAS district/regional meeting, AALAS branch meeting, or other lab animal science meeting | 1 per classroom/ lecture hour | | Active participation in a workshop at an AALAS National Meeting, AALAS district/regional meeting, AALAS branch meeting, or other lab animal science meeting | 1 per classroom/ lecture hour | | Wetlabs and hands-on learning | 2 per classroom/ lecture hour | | Personnel management/labor relations | 1 per classroom/ lecture hour | | Computer and lab/office equipment training courses | 1 per classroom/ lecture hour | | Fiscal management | 1 per classroom/ lecture hour | | Occupational/environmental health and safety training | 1 per classroom/ lecture hour | | Communications | 1 per classroom/ lecture hour | | iso9002 courses | 1 per classroom/ lecture hour | | Regulatory assurance | 1 per classroom/ lecture hour | | Quality assurance courses | 1 per classroom/ lecture hour |
| | Publications, Reports, Presentations | | First author of an article, book chapter, poster, etc., in a refereed publication (e.g. JAALAS or Comparative Medicine) | 8 per publication | | Any other author in a refereed publication, presentation, poster, etc. | 5 per publication | | Referee or review of national journal article or program | 2 per item | | Technical or management article published in Tech Talk, Lab Animal, or branch newsletter | 4 per article | | Paper, lecture, or poster presentation OR workshop leader (per paper/program) | | AALAS National Meeting
AALAS district/regional meeting
AALAS branch meeting
LAMA meeting
In-house presentation
International lab animal science meeting
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2 | | Program facilitator or moderator: AALAS National Meeting, AALAS branch meeting, and/or AALAS-affiliated organization's meeting | 1 per session | | AALAS Certification Preparatory Course Instruction (A maximum of 6 CEUs can be claimed for the same topic presentation over a two-year period.) | 2 per classroom/ lecture hour |
| | Professional Society Participation | | National AALAS officer, trustee, or committee member | 6 per year per position | | Officer or committee member of an AALAS branch or AALAS affiliated organization | 3 per year per position |
| | Online Learning Courses | | AALAS Learning Library Courses | as posted online |
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Documenting your CEUs can be done in two forms: Online (enter through Member Login at AALAS)
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