Demand an End to Torturing Animals for Training
In Defense of Animals
Western Michigan University Homer Stryker MD School of Medicine (WMed) trains its emergency medicine residents by having them perform surgical procedures on live pigs.
The university sends its trainees to Charles River Laboratories in Michigan where extreme suffering has been inflicted on innocent animals before they are killed.
Demand that WMed and Charles River Labs end these horrifying practices and stop using and killing animals to train doctors.
In partnership with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM), In Defense of Animals is calling on both facilities to end their use of pigs or any live animals in training for invasive medical procedures.
Twenty-four other medical institutions in Michigan have either stopped using animals for emergency medical programs or never used them at all.
WMed's program is one of only eight in the U.S. and Canada, including Brown University and the University of Missouri, that continue to use live animals in their training.
More + What You Can Do:
https://www.idausa.org/campaign/vivisection/latest-news/demand-an-end-to-torturing-animals-for-medical-training/