Animal ethics and welfare education in wet-lab training can foster residents’ ethical values toward life
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- Iki Yuko
- Tohoku University Hospital Advanced Medical Training Center, 2-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- 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
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- Sueta Teruko
- Institute for Animal Experimentation, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan
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- Miyoshi Ichiro
- Institute for Animal Experimentation, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan
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- 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
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- Okada Yoshinori
- Department of Thoracic Surgery, Tohoku University Hospital, 2-1 Seiryo-cho, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan
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- 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>
Journal
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- Experimental Animals
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Experimental Animals 66 (4), 313-320, 2017
Japanese Association for Laboratory Animal Science
