Don't Use Live Animals for Medical Training

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The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center is planning to use LIVE pigs for a trauma training course starting October 14th.

The use of live animals to train physicians in Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) courses is cruel and totally unnecessary. Animals experience trauma when confined and shipped, and like us, they feel pain. While 95% of the U.S. institutions that offer ATLS courses have switched to more effective human-based simulators, the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) seems to have little regard for the lives of animals, using and killing pigs to train doctors despite the existence of alternatives.

UPMC's is the only ATLS program in Pennsylvania that continues to use animals. With your help we can end this animal use.

**Tell the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center's executive vice president and chief medical officer that it's unacceptable to use live animals for the institution's trauma training course.**