MILWAUKEE (AP) – The Medical College of Wisconsin should halt its practice of using live dogs in laboratory exercises, a physician group says.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine urged the school’s administrators in a letter to phase out its use of live dogs in classrooms.
The Medical College uses dogs as part of the school’s Human Physiology course. The class is required for all first-year students although attendance at the lab is optional, said Jean-Francois Liard, the instructor.
….In a recent exercise to explore the circulatory system, 52 dogs were operated on while under anesthesia and then euthanized