Most U.S. schools were still using dog labs up until the late 90's. LSU New Orleans still uses the labs. Here is an exerpt from a site protesting LSU N.O. dog lab.
"Louisiana State University still uses live animals to teach basic concepts in human physiology, pharmacology, and/or surgery. Two-thirds of all U.S. medical schools, including Harvard, Stanford and Yale, have eliminated these old-fashioned laboratories in favor of modern, cost-effective and humane alternatives."
I have several colleagues at LSU that dread the labs, but this school and many others will not give it up.
Old School thinking I guess.
This is a quote from a student posted on the site.
"This class was useless, we could have watched a video and learned the same thing, instead of wasting a dog's life. At the end of the lab we just dumped the dog into a plastic bag and threw him in the garbage."
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Student from Graduating Class, 2006 -- LSU Medical School
Finally, here is a quote from the LA Humane Society on their site
"It's clear that we can't take the pressure off of LSU. Please contact the Dean of LSU Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, in New Orleans. Politely ask him to join top medical schools, in ending dog lab. Request that non-animal alternatives to the labs be used, such as patient simulators, cadavers, computer programs and/or the observation of actual human cardiac bypass surgery."
Go figure. I am not aware of any Carib schools using the dog labs.
