Unnecessary and cruel use of animals for medical undergraduate training in India

Solanki, Dharmesh

doi:10.4103/0976-500x.64537

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“…Shelters play a significant role in the management of stray cattle in India [11], but might have inadequate space, leading to unhygienic conditions [12,13]. Transfer of cattle between shelters is rare, usually only occurring if a single organization manages several shelters.…”

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The Welfare of Cows in Indian Shelters

Sharma

Kennedy²,

Schuetze

et al. 2019

Animals

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Cow shelters (gaushalas) are unique traditional institutions in India, where aged, infertile, diseased, rescued, and abandoned cows are sheltered for the rest of their life, until they die of natural causes. These institutions owe their existence to the reverence for the cow as a holy mother goddess for Hindus, the majority religion in India. There is a religious and legal prohibition on cow slaughter in most Indian states. A cross-sectional study was conducted to assess the welfare of cows in these shelters, which included the development of a welfare assessment protocol, based on direct animal-based measurements, indirect resource-based assessments, and description of the herd characteristics by the manager. A total of 54 cow shelters in 6 states of India were studied and 1620 animals were clinically examined, based on 37 health, welfare, and behavior parameters. Thirty resources provided to the animals, including housing, flooring, feeding, watering, ease of movement, cleanliness of facilities, lighting, temperature, humidity, and noise levels in the sheds were measured. The study showed that the shelters contained mostly non-lactating cows, with a mean age of 11 years. The primary welfare problems appeared to be different to those in Western countries, as the major issues found in the shelters were facility-related—the low space allowance per cow, poor quality of the floors, little freedom of movement, and a lack of pasture grazing. Very few cows were recorded as lame, but about one half had carpal joint hair loss and swelling, and slightly less had lesions from interacting with shelter furniture. Some shelters also had compromised biosecurity and risks of zoonosis. These issues need to be addressed to aid in ensuring the acceptability of these institutions to the public. This welfare assessment protocol aims to address the welfare issues and problems in the shelters, by providing feedback for improvement to the stakeholders.

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The Welfare of Cows in Indian Shelters

Sharma

Kennedy²,

Schuetze

et al. 2019

Animals

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“…Ethical concerns have been raised for the use of animals purely for learning purpose. 10 CAL can replace laboratory based animal experiments to a large extent and prevent the unnecessary harm or killing of animals. 11 Regulators of medical education across the world have been expressing their concern for this issue.…”

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A survey on the knowledge and perception of computer assisted learning among undergraduate medical students in a tertiary care teaching institute of North India

Jindal

Kumar

Bansal

et al. 2018

Int J Basic Clin Pharmacol

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Background: Computer assisted learning (CAL) in the classroom as well as laboratory in the medical profession has been rising in the present scenario worldwide. CAL can replace laboratory based animal experiments to a large extent and prevent the unnecessary harm or killing of animals. In India, only few studies have been conducted on CAL till date. Aims and objective of the study was to evaluate the knowledge and perception on CAL among undergraduate medical students.Methods: This cross sectional study was carried out on the medical students (MBBS-Second Professional) in the department of pharmacology at Guru Gobind Singh Medical College and Hospital, Faridkot, Punjab, India. Feedback was obtained from 105 students who had already performed animal experiments in CAL laboratory.Results: It was seen that Computer simulated models (CSMs) are useful for undergraduate teaching (by 98.1%), CAL enrich learning experience about drug effects (by 97.1%), CSMs in CAL is user friendly (by 97.1%) and use of CSMs in teaching is ethical (by 97.1%).Conclusions: CAL is an innovative teaching and learning technique for the medical students. This is an effective mode of teaching pharmacology to the students and it also helps the students to apply their theoretical knowledge of drugs to the practical aspects (without use of animal) on computer simulated models.

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“…From 171 American Medical Schools, only three schools use animal models for learning purposes 7 . More than 95% of Canadian and British schools eliminated animals as an educational learning model 8 .…”

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Learning methodology in surgical training

Camargo

Gemperli

Jo³

2018

Rev. Med. (São Paulo)

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RESUMO:Esse manuscrito tem como objetivo revisar dados da literatura relacionados ao treinamento cirúrgico para alunos de graduação me medicina. Essa revisão demostrou que alguns pré requesitos são necessários para se realizar treinamento cirúrgico de maneira eficaz: supervisão direta, repetições pré-determinadas de acordo com a complexidade da atividade a ser ensinada, modelos de simuladores válidos, número de alunos por modelo. Esse manuscrito também discutiu como o programa cirúrgico pode levar a competência pelo desenvolvimento do pensamento crítico e pela integração curricular baseado no racional da utilização de um programa de treinamento por simuladores.Descritores: Cirurgia geral/educação; Educação/métodos; Capacitação/métodos; Treinamento por simulação/métodos. ABSTRACT:This manuscript aimed to review the literature data related to the surgical training program. This review showed some of the requirements to perform effective surgical training were direct supervision, predetermined repetitions according to surgical skill complexity, valid simulator models, number of students per model. This manuscript discussed how the surgical program could achieve competence using a critical thinking framework, integrated curriculum based on the rationale behind simulation training program.

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Unnecessary and cruel use of animals for medical undergraduate training in India

Cited by 10 publications

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The Welfare of Cows in Indian Shelters

The Welfare of Cows in Indian Shelters

A survey on the knowledge and perception of computer assisted learning among undergraduate medical students in a tertiary care teaching institute of North India

Learning methodology in surgical training

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