Brown University Stop Cruel Animal Testing
Brown University Stop Cruel Animal Testing
The Issue
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University currently uses live pigs in their medical school training. According to an ongoing survey by the Physicians Committee, 97% of emergency medicine residencies exclusively use human-based simulations and cadavers. In fact, every other emergency medicine residency in New England exclusively uses human-relevant training methods, including Boston University, Yale-New Haven Medical Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and Massachusetts General Hospital. The Lifespan Medical Simulation Center is affiliated with Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and the simulation center offers life-like human patient simulators that could replace the use of live animals in the emergency medicine residency. (Physicians Comittee for Responsible Medicine)
Stand with Raise and the Brown Animal Rights Coalition to end needless animal cruelty on Brown's campus. This is a modern adaptation of an ongoing petition as the Brown students have been opposed to the animal cruelty at Warren Alpert Medical School for years.
Brown University has a documented history of negligent treatment toward animals. Disturbing reports, obtained from the U.S. Department of Agriculture website, revealed chronic and systemic violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act in Brown’s laboratories. Among other incidents, five bats starved to death when laboratory staff forgot to feed them; two macaques sustained injures that required surgery after staff failed to secure the area where one of them was confined, allowing him or her to escape and reach the other primate; and another macaque injured his or her hand after staff failed to secure the confinement area, allowing the animal to escape and fight with other primates.(PETA, 2020)
We, the undersigned, demand that Brown University Alpert Medical School stop using live pigs and other animals in emergency medicine training, and replace this practice with non animal methods.
3,933
The Issue
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University currently uses live pigs in their medical school training. According to an ongoing survey by the Physicians Committee, 97% of emergency medicine residencies exclusively use human-based simulations and cadavers. In fact, every other emergency medicine residency in New England exclusively uses human-relevant training methods, including Boston University, Yale-New Haven Medical Center, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and Massachusetts General Hospital. The Lifespan Medical Simulation Center is affiliated with Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, and the simulation center offers life-like human patient simulators that could replace the use of live animals in the emergency medicine residency. (Physicians Comittee for Responsible Medicine)
Stand with Raise and the Brown Animal Rights Coalition to end needless animal cruelty on Brown's campus. This is a modern adaptation of an ongoing petition as the Brown students have been opposed to the animal cruelty at Warren Alpert Medical School for years.
Brown University has a documented history of negligent treatment toward animals. Disturbing reports, obtained from the U.S. Department of Agriculture website, revealed chronic and systemic violations of the federal Animal Welfare Act in Brown’s laboratories. Among other incidents, five bats starved to death when laboratory staff forgot to feed them; two macaques sustained injures that required surgery after staff failed to secure the area where one of them was confined, allowing him or her to escape and reach the other primate; and another macaque injured his or her hand after staff failed to secure the confinement area, allowing the animal to escape and fight with other primates.(PETA, 2020)
We, the undersigned, demand that Brown University Alpert Medical School stop using live pigs and other animals in emergency medicine training, and replace this practice with non animal methods.
3,933
Petition created on March 19, 2021