Physicians
Committee Shapes NIH Plan to Replace Animal
Testing
The Physicians Committee helped shape the National Institutes of Health's new
plan for replacing animal use in toxicity testing. Say 'Thank You'
to the NIH >
Ads Urge Medical
Center to Modernize Training Methods
Twenty-six bus bench ads across Toledo encourage the University of Toledo
Medical Center to end the use of live animals for emergency medicine training
and switch to simulators. Ads >
Doctors
Call Out Use of Animals in Military Medical
Training
The Physicians Committee submitted requests for investigation to two Navy
Inspector General offices in January regarding the unauthorized use of animals
for combat trauma medical training in the Marine Corps. Details
>
Urge Vanderbilt University to End the Use of Animals for Emergency Medicine Training
Please take a minute to ask Vanderbilt University chancellor Nicholas S. Zeppos and School of Medicine dean Jeffrey R. Balser, M.D., Ph.D., to replace the use of animals in the school’s emergency medicine residency program with validated human-based training methods. We have provided text for you, but if you decide to write your own message, please be polite and encouraging. Here are some talking points:
- Please replace the use of animals in the Vanderbilt emergency medicine residency program with simulators and other human-relevant training methods.
- Currently, 91 percent of surveyed emergency medicine residency programs in the United States teach the same procedures using nonanimal methods.
- Vanderbilt has a state-of-the-art simulation center that, if fully utilized, could replace the use of animals immediately.
- Vanderbilt’s Advanced Trauma Life Support program teaches the same emergency procedures using simulation, so the school is already experienced in using nonanimal methods for this type of training.
- Nicholas S. Zeppos
- Jeffrey R. Balser, M.D., Ph.D.
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