In addition, PCRM sent alternatives information to medical schools across the U.S. and Canada. In July, the University of Miami became the latest medical school to dump its animal teaching labs, thanks to PCRM's campaign and our medical student allies, backed up by PCRM's research coordinator Jennifer Drone. In October, however, animal experimenters fought back, deciding that if they could not have a dog lab, they may try to arrange a lab using pigs. PCRM is working hard to keep the medical school cruelty-free. A flight nurse training program in Kansas City, Kansas, canceled its live dog laboratory after PCRM provided detailed alternatives information.
Firefighters save animals.
Washington Township firefighters in Dublin, Ohio, objected to an upcoming trauma training course using live dogs and contacted PCRM for help. We sent Fire Chief Gene Bostic information on nonanimal alternatives, and the animal laboratory was soon canceled. Sale of dogs stopped. PCRM pushed the city of Duluth, Minnesota, to cut off the sale of animals to laboratories. PCRM's director of research Steven Ragland promoted nonanimal teaching methods in trauma care at the American College of Surgeons convention in Orlando, while Laurel Kadish and Brian Buckley Smith represented PCRM at the American College of Emergency Physicians in San Diego.