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Man’s Best Friend, Not Training Tool
February 19, 2009, 4:18PM MT
By Jennifer S Hayes
Please voice opposition to University of Michigan’s use of dogs for trauma training
Please voice opposition to University of Michigan’s use of dogs for trauma training
By Ryan Merkley, Manager of Humane Education Programs, Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
We asked for your help to end the use of live dogs for trauma training at the University of Michigan. And more than 11,000 of you contacted University of Michigan executive vice president for medical affairs Robert P. Kelch, M.D. and dean James Woolliscroft, M.D
To keep the pressure on the school, PCRM put up three billboards in Michigan earlier this week that ask University of Michigan not to “put man’s best friend under the knife.” And now we need you to contact University of Michigan’s president and ask her to save the dogs scheduled to be used and killed during the next course on March 20.
Please e-mail or call University of Michigan (U-M) president Mary Sue Coleman, and ask her to end the school’s use of animals for its Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) course.
Being polite is the most effective way to help these animals.
Mary Sue Coleman
President
University of Michigan
Office of the President
503 Thompson St.
2074 Fleming Administration Building
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1340
E-mail: presoff@umich.edu
Phone: 734-764-6270
Send an automatic e-mail now.
Documents obtained by PCRM under the Michigan Freedom of Information Act reveal that U-M is using lost or surrendered dogs from Michigan shelters for its ATLS course. At U-M, this course involves cutting open live, anesthetized dogs and practicing emergency medical procedures. After the training session, the animals are killed.
For more information:
• Questions can be directed to Ryan Merkley of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine at rmerkley@pcrm.org
• University of Michigan Uses Antiquated Teaching Methods
• Stop the University of Michigan’s dog lab on PCRM
• Alternate humane training methods can be utilized, including TraumaMan and University of Michigan’s own Clinical Simulation Center
Posted by Jennifer Hayes, Best Friends staff
Photo credit: taken by Jennifer Hayes