How many courses do you attend to be able to use all the equipment in a lab?

Question: How many courses do you attend to be able to use all the equipment in a lab?
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Asked by to Del, Catherine, John, Krishna, Mo Rassul on 13 Mar 2014. This question was also asked by .
- Catherine Mansfield answered on 13 Mar 2014:
  
  None really. Normally other people in the lab teach you how to use the equipment, however, some of the equipment I taught myself how to use as nobody else knows how to use it and some of the equipment I built myself and so I teach other people how to use it.
- John Foster answered on 13 Mar 2014:
  
  There aren’t really any courses about equipment. We get taught how to do some experiments at university, but usually you just learn from someone else in the lab or make up the experiment for yourself!
- Adelle Thrower answered on 14 Mar 2014:
  
  There are a few courses I have been on but like the others have said, it’s more in house training where you get taught but other scientists at work. I now teach new scientists how to use all the equipment in my lab- it’s very fun!
- Muhammed Rassul answered on 17 Mar 2014:
  
  None, normally when I am introduced to new equipment I am given a 5 minute walk through on how to use it. Anything more I need to know I have to figure out myself.
- Krishna Mohan Surapaneni answered on 18 Mar 2014:
  
  that depends on what equipments that you are going to use in your lab.