Animal ethics and welfare education in wet-lab training can foster residents’ ethical values toward life

  • Iki Yuko
    Tohoku University Hospital Advanced Medical Training Center, 2-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan
  • Ito Takuya
    Tohoku University Hospital Advanced Medical Training Center, 2-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan International Disciplinary Biomedical Engineering, Course of Disability Science, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan
  • Kudo Katsuyoshi
    Tohoku University Hospital Advanced Medical Training Center, 2-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan Division of Gastroenterological Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Hospital, 1-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan
  • Noda Masafumi
    Tohoku University Hospital Advanced Medical Training Center, 2-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tohoku University Hospital, 2-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan
  • Kanehira Masahiko
    Tohoku University Hospital Advanced Medical Training Center, 2-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tohoku University Hospital, 2-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan
  • Sueta Teruko
    Institute for Animal Experimentation, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan
  • Miyoshi Ichiro
    Institute for Animal Experimentation, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan
  • Kagaya Yutaka
    Comprehensive Education Center for Community Medicine, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine 2-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan
  • Okada Yoshinori
    Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tohoku University Hospital, 2-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan
  • Unno Michiaki
    Tohoku University Hospital Advanced Medical Training Center, 2-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan Division of Gastroenterological Surgery, Department of Surgery, Tohoku University Hospital, 1-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan

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Abstract

<p>Live animals are used in surgical skills training in wet lab, which has undeniable effectiveness for the development of future surgeons. However, where such training is provided, animal welfare is a major consideration. Increasingly, institutions that offer wet-lab training are incorporating animal ethics and welfare-related content into their training courses, but the effectiveness of such animal ethics education has yet to be evaluated quantitatively. We investigated whether the animal ethics content of a training course affected trainees by measuring increase in ethical awareness using visual analog scale questionnaires before and after training. Our results demonstrated a significant and positive increase in awareness of animal ethics (significance level of 5%; 0.0380≤P≤0.0016).</p>

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  • Experimental Animals

    Experimental Animals 66 (4), 313-320, 2017

    Japanese Association for Laboratory Animal Science

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