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Veterinary and Medical Schools
Don't Want to Harm Animals in Your Education?
Every year millions of animals are dissected and vivisected for educational purposes. Cats, fetal pigs, and dogs are just some of the many species used. Although some animals are purchased as dead specimens, many others are subjected to painful and lethal procedures while still alive. These lethal procedures are often called dog labs. Dog labs are used to teach basic physiology and pharmacology. These labs may also be performed on other animals besides dogs. Even though alternatives exist, dog labs are still regularly performed in over half of the 126 U.S. medical schools and in 25 out of the 27 accredited U.S. veterinary medical schools.
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Dog Labs
If our hopes are to build a worldwide community of physicians with empathy, care, and concern for their patients, then to completely eradicate the inhumane practice of dog labs which treat companion animals like pedagogical tools with little intrinsic value seems like a logical part of the process.
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Educational Memorial Programs
Educational Memorial Programs (EMPs) are becoming more prevalent in veterinary medical education, while medical schools are comfortable with using donated cadavers of deceased human beings. For over a century, medical doctors have learned anatomy by using donated cadavers of deceased human beings. Veterinary colleges obtain their cat and dog cadavers in a different ways, which include animal dealers, biological supply companies, breeders, animal shelters, and retired animals from industries such as greyhound racing.
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Veterinary Testimonials
Many educators chose to provide high quality science education without using animals. Their humane approach to teaching human and veterinary medicine allows students to learn using a combination of teaching methods ranging from multimedia computer simulation to self-testing on themselves and fellow students to observing living animals, performing healing intervention on those who are sick, or using the bodies of others who have died naturally.
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U.S. Veterinary Medical Schools Offering Alternatives
The following is a compilation of schools that offer alternatives in either some or all of the core or elective courses. For specific details on each school, contact Animalearn.
Auburn University Auburn, AL
Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO
Florida State University Tallahassee, FL

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Medical Professional Testimonials
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Medical Schools With No Live Animal Laboratories
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The Science Bank
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