Programs & Campaigns
Dogs OUT of medical schools
As of March 2008, all 126 U.S. medical schools stopped using live dogs in their training programs.
New York Medical College announced last November that they would no longer use live dogs for teaching.
Case Western Reserve University followed suit this January, making it the final medical school to discontinue this archaic practice. Case Western has also stopped using live cats and ferrets for surgical training, and will eliminate live pig labs by mid-2008.
According to the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), over 90% of American medical schools have eliminated live animal labs from their curricula altogether.
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