- Introduction to anti-doping
- Welcome to the course
- Who or what is WADA?
- Who or what is UKAD?
- Sample collection
- Weekly wrap-up
- Pre-analysis, screening methods, instruments and drug categories
- Welcome to week 2
- Quality control
- Urine screening and testing process
- The science behind screening and testing
- Initial test results
- Weekly wrap up
- The science behind immunoassays test and how they are used in anti-doping laboratories
- Welcome to week 3
- Misuse of growth hormones
- Blood doping
- Athlete biological passport (ABP) and the athlete profile management unit (APMU)
- Results and adverse analytical findings
- Weekly wrap up
- Catching the cheats: review of real life doping cases and the dark side of sport
- Welcome to week 4
- Case studies
- Update on our athletes
- Future directions and research
- Course wrap-up
