October 12, 2007

Medical Schools Stop Using Dogs and Pigs in Teaching

By KATHERINE MANGAN

Training of future doctors now largely depends on new technologies rather than lab animals

Medical students who have qualms about practicing their surgical skills on dogs and pigs no longer have to worry that refusing to participate will hurt their grades. In most cases today, the medical schools themselves are opting out of live-animal teaching labs.

Although animals are still widely used in research, only a dozen of the nation's 125 accredited medical schools still use live

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