Mission: Oregon Health & Science University Is Mutilating Pigs—Let’s End This Horror

Posted by Calvin on August 17, 2023

Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) in Portland, Oregon, is cutting into live pigs. 😨 The school is using the animals as stand-ins for humans in obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) residency training. We’re pretty sure a university dedicated to health and science should know that pigs and humans have very different bodies. That’s health and science 101. 🤔

There’s another huge difference between the pigs and the humans they replace: The school kills all pigs who make it through the training alive. We’re calling for OHSU to immediately stop using live animals and switch to simulators and other far better teaching methods. Practicing on pigs is cruel and completely pointless.

Please help us get OHSU to ban the use of live animals for OB/GYN residency training! Take action and earn peta2 points in our Rewards Program. (Heads-up: You’ll only be awarded points for one action.)

1. E-mail OHSU’s OB/GYN department chair, Dr. Aaron Caughey. You can use our sample message, but feel free to tweak it, as using your own words is much more effective. Take a screenshot of your e-mail and submit it using the form below to earn 15 peta2 points.

Dr. Aaron Caughey

Chair

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology

OHSU School of Medicine

[email protected] 

Suggested e-mail:

Please Stop Using Live Animals in OB/GYN Residency Training

Dear Dr. Caughey:

I’m writing to urge you to adopt a public policy banning the use of live animals in your OB/GYN residency training program. Pigs and other animals can’t accurately mimic human anatomy or physiology, so operating on them does not properly prepare students to perform invasive procedures on human patients.

Superior animal-free human simulators are available. They are cheaper in the long run and are being used—instead of animals—by OB/GYN residency programs at Rush University, Aurora Sinai Medical Center, and many other institutions. I strongly urge you to adopt their use, too, and stop using live animals in your training program.

Thank you for your time and attention.

Sincerely,

[Your Name]

2. Call the dean of the OHSU School of Medicine, Dr. David Jacoby. Tell him why the school should stop mutilating pigs in pointless training exercises, take a screenshot of your call, and submit it for 15 peta2 points.

Dr. David Jacoby

Dean

OHSU School of Medicine

503-494-8220

3. Write a comment to OHSU on Instagram or Twitter, take a screenshot of your comment, and submit it for 15 peta2 points.