Tell Baylor College of Medicine to Stop Using Pigs for Emergency Medicine Training

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Please take a minute to ask top officials at Baylor College of Medicine to replace the use of live animals in the emergency skills training lab with human-based training methods. We have provided text for you, but if you decide to write your own message, please be polite and encouraging.

Recipients:

M. Tyson Pillow, M.D., M.Ed.
Program Director, Emergency Medicine Residency
Dick Kuo, M.D.
Interim Chair, Henry J. N. Taub Department of Emergency Medicine
Jennifer Christner, M.D.
Dean, Baylor School of Medicine

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Please Stop Using Animals to Train Emergency Medicine Residents

Dear Dr. Pillow, Dr. Kuo, and Dean Christner,

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I am writing to ask that you modernize and humanize medical training at Baylor College of Medicine by ending the use of live animals in the emergency medicine residency program. As you know, at Baylor, emergency medicine residents are instructed to cut into live pigs to practice procedures. However, there are validated and widely available nonanimal methods that allow trainees to repeat procedures and hone their skills.

Currently, the use of live animals to train emergency medicine residents is at odds with the 94 percent of surveyed programs (246 of 263) in the United States and Canada that use only human-relevant training methods. In fact, top-ranked programs at the University of Southern California, the University of Cincinnati Medical Center, and Denver Health Medical Center use nonanimal training methods rather than live animals. All other civilian emergency medicine residencies in Texas exclusively use nonanimal methods. In addition, Baylor already has a state-of-the-art simulation center that could provide the resources to replace live animal use in the emergency medicine residency program.

To ensure that future emergency physicians are receiving educationally and ethically superior training methods, please end the use of animals immediately.

Sincerely,
[Your Name]
[Your Address]
[City, State ZIP]

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