Physicians Committee
April 2017
Please take a minute to ask Interim School of Medicine Dean Duane Compton, Ph.D., and Emergency Medicine Residency Program Director E. Paul DeKoning, M.D., M.S., to replace the use of live animals with human-based training methods in the New Hampshire hospital’s emergency medicine residency program.
Here are some talking points:
Sign an online petition.
And/Or better yet, make direct contact:
Duane Compton, Ph.D., Interim Dean
Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine
1 Rope Ferry Road
Hanover, NH 03755-1404
phone (877) 367-1797
fax (603) 650-1202
SAMPLE LETTER
I am writing to ask that you modernize and humanize medical training at
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center by ending the use of animals for training
emergency medicine residents. As you know, at Dartmouth-Hitchcock, residents
are instructed to cut into live sheep to practice emergency procedures,
after which the animals are killed. However, there are validated and widely
implemented human-based methods that allow trainees to repeat procedures and
hone their skills.
Dartmouth-Hitchcock's emergency medicine residency program is in a small
minority in the United States, as 143 of 157 surveyed programs use only
nonanimal training methods, such as medical simulators. In fact, other
regional programs--including Boston University, University of Massachusetts,
Maine Medical Center in Portland, and the University of Connecticut--all
exclusively use human-based training methods. Dartmouth-Hitchcock already
has a state-of-the-art simulation center that could provide the resources to
replace animal use.
To ensure that future emergency physicians are receiving the most
educationally and ethically superior training available, please end the use
of live animals.
Sincerely,
[your name and contact information]
Thank you for everything you do for animals!
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