READING ASSIGNMENT:
None. Recommend allowing open book, open notes for students during the 2 hour final examination.

OBJECTIVES:

• To assess students’ rational application of biosafety principles to situations likely to be encountered in the profession (not students’ memorization ability)

POWERPOINT LECTURE TITLE:
None

STUDENT HANDOUTS:
Final Exam. To request a copy of the final exam, please email Ben Fontes.

IN-CLASS EXERCISES OR TOURS:
None

FILMS:
Incorporating video or DVD into the final exam is strongly encouraged.  Video editing technology makes taking video footage an incorporating it into presentations a simple project.  Also, many institutions have Audio Visual Departments that can be contacted for assistance with small video projects.
Sample ideas for video footage for “real time” examination questions.

• Take footage of your staff cleaning up a “FAKE” spill of human blood or cell culture flask and ask them to make as many “mistakes” as they can.  Show this to the class as one of the exam questions.  Provides an opportunity to assess if they can identify poor work practices in an emergency response situation.
• Take footage of your existing researchers handling a RG2 agent under BSL2 containment conditions.  Show a clip of them working at the biological safety cabinet performing cell culture work as an exam question, but ask students to assess their BSL3 work practices.  The exam question could be “Is this researcher ready to start working with RG3 agents tomorrow?  Yes/No, justify.
• Ask same group of BSL2 researchers to make mistakes during their work with “MOCK” cell cultures on purpose.  Work with the researchers in advance to develop a list of “mistakes” and take footage of them recreating this list in their laboratories.  The exam question posed to students watching the video is to find as many mistakes or opportunities for exposure or the dissemination of contaminants as they can find.

One existing video that can be used for this purpose is available at a small cost from the American Biological Safety Association (www.absa.org).  Contact them and ask to purchase the Job Hazard Analysis Risk Assessment Video (created by Gilian Norton).  This has footage of researchers working with virus in cell culture at a biological safety cabinet and bacteria on the bench in a microbiology lab.

CLASS DEMONSTRATION (EQUIPMENT/DEVICES):
None

HOMEWORK:
None

ADDITIONAL REFERENCES:
None