John Hopkins University School of Medicine announced it will no longer use live pigs to train surgical students, leaving the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga as the only medical school in the U.S. or Canada to allow the practice.
To learn about John Hopkins’ history of defending the use of live animals for training, and how surgical simulation technology made using live pigs unnecessary, click on the link below:
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