Physicians Committee
May 2017
Please take a minute to ask University of Toledo Medical Center (UTMC) Emergency Medicine Department Chair Kristopher R. Brickman, M.D., F.A.C.E.P., to replace the use of pigs in the school's Emergency Skills Laboratory with validated human-based training methods. We have provided text for you, but if you decide to write your own message, please be polite and encouraging.
Laboratory with validated human-based training methods. We have provided text for you, but if you decide to write your own message, please be polite and encouraging. Here are some talking points:
Sign an online petition.
And/Or better yet, make direct contact:
Kristopher R. Brickman, M.D., F.A.C.E.P.
[email protected]
(419) 383-6307
SAMPLE LETTER:
am writing to ask that you modernize and humanize medical training
at the University of Toledo Medical Center (UTMC) by ending the use of
animals in your Emergency Skills Laboratory. As the Principal Investigator
in charge of this protocol, I know that you have the authority to make this
change immediately.
The Emergency Skills Laboratory uses pigs to provide continuing education
credits to a variety of first responders, in addition to training emergency
medicine residents. UTMC is providing substandard training to all these
participants, as evidenced by the 99 percent of 140 surveyed paramedic
programs and 90 percent of surveyed emergency medicine residency programs
that use only nonanimal training methods. UTMC already has a $36 million
state-of-the-art medical simulation center, so there is no justification for
this continued use of animals.
Please end this practice immediately.
Your name
Contact information
Thank you for everything you do for animals!
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