Alternativas ao uso de animais no ensino da cirurgia veterinária e a Escola de Veterinária e Zootecnia da Universidade Federal de Goiás: revisão

Abstract

The Veterinary Medicine courses have always embraced the use of animals for the surgery teaching. However, not all education institutions are concerned about the ethical conduct for this, and continue to use animals improperly and indiscriminately. This practice resulted in ethical and moral questions from the society, students and teachers, mainly due to the existence of alternatives instead of the animal use. For this reason, the surgery teaching in the schools of Veterinary Medicine has required adoption of conducts in order to prioritize animal welfare and do not compromise the quality of education. Nevertheless, the literature about the methodology of teaching veterinary surgery in Brazil is scarce and difficult to establish the current situation of teaching surgery in veterinary medicine in the country. The aim of this paper is to present, in the form of a literature review, a number of teaching techniques aimed at replacing animals for euthanasia after practice veterinary surgery, and to describe the current status of the School of Veterinary and Animal Science of the Federal University of Goiás related to this regard.