Laboratory animal ethics education improves medical students' awareness of laboratory animal ethics.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

In this study, we added laboratory animal ethics education into both didactic sessions and practical sessions the general surgery laboratory course, with the didactic sessions focus on teaching the fundamental principles of laboratory animal ethics, while the practical sessions emphasize the application of these principles in laboratory classes and have assessed the changes in medical students' perception of laboratory animal ethics following medical students exposure to such education.

Methods

One hundred and eighty-nine third-year medical students from Wuhan University's Second Clinical College completed a laboratory animal ethics awareness questionnaire and a laboratory animal ethics written examination before and after laboratory animal ethics education.

Res

SUBMITTER: Zhang W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11218205 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature