Isn’t it necessary to use live animals to teach surgery techniques to medical students?
Many specially designed simulators are available to teach surgery skills ranging from suturing to laparoscopic surgery. Open surgery techniques are taught during surgery rotations, under the hands-on guidance of faculty and staff. In fact, the American College of Surgeons has instituted a surgery curriculum reform initiative that eliminates the use of animals even in surgery training programs. If surgeons in subspecialty training don’t need to use animals, medical students certainly don’t.
