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W. David Zitzkat
Hartford, Conn

JAMA. 1991;266(24):3423.

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To the Editor.

—I read with dismay the AMA Council Report on the use of animals in medical education.¹I find it more than a little odd that prestigious medical schools, such as Yale, have a policy that obviously conflicts with your opinion that, "the use of animals in the general education of physicians is essential." In fact, according to a 1988 survey of 127 medical schools published in the Journal of Medical Education,² only three US medical schools did not allow students an alternative to participation, and one of those three schools has since closed. Your article refers to one of the original three still open, the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston.

As an attorney and an adjunct professor of law, I have no hesitation in stating that if the Galveston Medical Branch denies admission to students based on their moral objections to the use . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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