Survey of Live Animals in Emergency Medicine Training

The Physicians Committee is actively surveying all emergency medicine residency programs in the United States and Canada to determine their training methods.

Currently:

• 97% of responsive programs use only human-relevant training methods, like medical simulators and human cadavers.
• 267 programs use only nonanimal training methods
• 8 programs use live animals

These are some of the emergency medicine programs the Physicians Committee is actively working to change:

• Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital
• Brooke Army Medical Center
• Naval Medical Center Portsmouth
• University of Missouri Columbia
• Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine

Below is a list of all accredited emergency medicine residency programs in the U.S. and Canada. This table is continuously updated.

• Human-Relevant Training Methods
• Physicians Committee Medical Simulation Fund
• Myths and Facts: The Use of Live Animals in Medical Training