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This site contains notes, images, links, and databases to help me prepare to take the ECLAM board exams in 2010. It all began as a Microsoft FrontPage site designed to help me prepare for the ACLAM exams in 1999, and after 10 years of not being updated, I started it all over again in 2009.

Literature references are indicated by "squiggly brackets" in the text (i.e. {1234}). These will link to the appropriate article on the bibliography pages.

The site search link used to work, but it stopped. Sorry.

The structure of this entire site is based upon the old ACLAM RDD, which has now been adopted by ECLAM, more or less; the outline of the Certifying Exam is still on the ECLAM site.

Please send me an email (janet.rodgers@vet.ox.ac.uk) with any comments, suggestions or problems you have with this site.

Some things I need to do someday are:

1. Expand on the uses of Old World monkeys in research.

2. Improve the primate taxonomy section, listing Latin and common names of primates, with photos.

3. Improve the macaque anatomy section (which doesn't really have any information about anatomy).

4. Read chapter 3 in the 2nd edition Laboratory Rat-- written by Hans Hedrich.

5. The cryopreservation page needs significant updating.

6. I started rearranging the viral sections to make them more conducive to linear thinking. Each disease should include the following, in order: signalment, clinical presentation, gross necropsy, histopathology, differential diagnosis, diagnosis, and control methods.

This page was last updated on June 11, 2010.