Campaign Updates: OHSU Mutilates Pigs in OB/GYN Medical Training

During obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) residency training at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), live pigs are cut into and dissected and undergo other invasive surgical procedures—all as practice for performing surgeries on human patients. But pigs’ anatomy and physiology are vastly different from those of humans, making such training irrelevant to learning how to treat humans. PETA is calling for an immediate end to this archaic use of animals—and you can help.

‘Pigs’ Interrupt OHSU Board Meeting to Demand Ban on Live-Animal Training

September 18, 2023

PETA supporters wearing pig masks descended on OHSU’s board of directors meeting, urging the school to end its use of live animals during cruel and invasive obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) physician residency training drills in favor of more effective, ethical, and economical human-simulation models.

Oregon Health and Science University has the shameful distinction of being one of the few institutions still slicing up pigs in OB/GYN trainings rather than embracing superior modern technology.

This torment MUST end! Tell @OHSUNews if you agree: https://t.co/27i0ELvvYe pic.twitter.com/cKPcbkzIni

— PETA (@peta) September 18, 2023

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UT Southwestern Ends Use of Live Animals in OB/GYN Training; OHSU Remains Outlier

August 30, 2023

Following the University of Texas (UT) Southwestern Medical Center’s decision to stop mutilating live pigs for OB/GYN residency training, PETA sent a letter to Aaron Caughey, OHSU’s chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, urging his school to follow suit.

UT Southwestern—which dropped its use of animals in the drills after hearing from PETA—joins the many programs approved by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education that do not use live animals for OB/GYN training. OHSU is one of few institutions still using this archaic and cruel teaching method despite the availability of more effective, non-animal simulators

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PETA Video Blasts OHSU for Cruel OB/GYN Training

August 18, 2023

PETA’s latest push for OHSU to end its invasive medical training procedures on live pigs in its OB/GYN physician residency training program is a heartbreaking video exposing how the terrified animals suffer during these gruesome procedures. The animated video, being blasted across social media, urges supporters to ask the school to abandon its cruel, deadly training on live pigs and adopt a public policy banning the use of live animals in such training.

https://www.tiktok.com/@officialpeta/video/7268720850231151918?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc&web_id=7159273634300872235

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‘Pigs’ Confront OHSU Board of Directors to Urge Ban on Live-Animal Training

June 23, 2023

PETA supporters wearing pig masks protested inside an OHSU Board of Directors meeting, holding signs that read “Stop Maiming Animals” and “OHSU Mutilates Live Pigs,” to urge the school to end its invasive medical drills on live animals in its OB/GYN residency training program.

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Crying ‘Pig’ Demands That OHSU End Training on Live Animals

June 9, 2023

Outside Oregon Health & Science University’s convocation ceremony, a surprising sight awaited graduates, their families, and the school’s president, Danny Jacobs. A crying “pig” mascot stood prominently with PETA supporters, urging the university to end the use of live animals in its OB/GYN residency training program.

OB/GYN residents at @OHSUNews cut into live female pigs, dissect their organs, and perform other invasive surgeries on them before they’re killed in training drills that aren’t relevant to humans. Yeah, it’s that bad. pic.twitter.com/4ICFiqN1MN

— PETA (@peta) June 10, 2023

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PETA Activists Urge OHSU Board of Directors to End Pig Mutilations

April 19, 2023

Armed with signs reading, “OHSU Mutilates Live Pigs in OB/GYN Drills,” PETA activists descended on an OHSU Board of Directors meeting to call on the school to end its invasive medical training procedures on live pigs in favor of more effective, ethical, and economical human simulation models. PETA also wrote a letter yesterday to the chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Aaron Caughey, urging him to end the use of live animals for OHSU’s OB/GYN residency training.