Live Animal Use Ends in the University of Tennessee College of Medicine Chattanooga Emergency Medicine Residency
May 14, 2018
May 14, 2018
CHATTANOOGA, Tennessee, May 14 -- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine issued the following news release:
Following the launch of the Physicians Committee's campaign, UTCOM Chattanooga has modernized its graduate medical education training by ceasing the use of live pigs in its emergency medicine residency program. Residents were participating in pig labs described in a surgical skills laboratory protocol, as well as in Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) and Pediatric . . .
Following the launch of the Physicians Committee's campaign, UTCOM Chattanooga has modernized its graduate medical education training by ceasing the use of live pigs in its emergency medicine residency program. Residents were participating in pig labs described in a surgical skills laboratory protocol, as well as in Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) and Pediatric . . .