Animal Use in OB/GYN Physician Residency Training Programs in the U.S.

PETA is conducting an ongoing survey regarding the use of animals in obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) physician residency training programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education throughout the U.S. (results shown below). If you are aware of an OB/GYN residency program that is currently using animals for training purposes, please e-mail [email protected].

Updated: August 29, 2023

• OB/GYN Residency Programs That Use Live Animals (19)
  • Albany Medical Center – Albany, N.Y.
  • Harbor-UCLA Medical Center – Torrance, Calif.
  • HCA Healthcare Mercer University School of Medicine Memorial Health University Medical Center – Savannah, Ga.
  • Henry Ford Hospital – Detroit, Mich.
  • MedStar Health/Washington Hospital Center – Washington, D.C.
  • Montefiore Medical Center Albert Einstein College of Medicine – Bronx, N.Y.
  • New York-Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus) – New York, N.Y.
  • NYU Long Island School of Medicine – Mineola, N.Y.
  • Oregon Health & Science University – Portland, Ore.
  • Rochester General Hospital – Rochester, N.Y.
  • Louis University School of Medicine – St. Louis, Mo.
  • Stony Brook Medicine/University Hospital – Stony Brook, N.Y.
  • University at Buffalo – Buffalo, N.Y.
  • University at Buffalo Sisters of Charity Hospital – Buffalo, N.Y.
  • University of California San Diego Health Jacobs Medical Center – La Jolla, Calif.
  • University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Graduate Medical Education – Pittsburgh, Pa.
  • University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics – Madison, Wis.
  • Vanderbilt University Medical Center – Nashville, Tenn.
  • Washington University/Barnes-Jewish Hospital/St. Louis Children’s Hospital Graduate Medical Education Consortium – St. Louis, Mo.

• OB/GYN Residency Programs That Do Not Use Live Animals* (112)
  • Advocate Health Care/Advocate Lutheran General Hospital – Park Ridge, Ill.
  • Akron General Medical Center/NEOMED – Akron, Ohio
  • Ascension Macomb-Oakland Hospital – Warren, Mich
  • Aultman Hospital/NEOMED – Canton, Ohio
  • Aurora Health Care – Milwaukee, Wis.
  • Beaumont Health – Royal Oak, Mich.
  • Beaumont Health – Trenton, Mich.
  • Carilion Clinic/Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine – Roanoke, Va.
  • Carolinas Medical Center – Charlotte, N.C.
  • Central Michigan University College of Medicine – Saginaw, Mich.
  • Charleston Area Medical Center/West Virginia University School of Medicine – Charleston, W.Va.
  • Cooper Medical School of Rowan University/Cooper University Hospital – Camden, N.J.
  • David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA/UCLA Medical School – Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Detroit Medical Center/Wayne State University – Detroit, Mich.
  • Eastern Virginia Medical School – Norfolk, Va.
  • HCA Houston Healthcare West/University of Houston – Houston, Texas
  • Hospital Episcopal San Lucas/Ponce School of Medicine – Ponce, P.R.
  • Hurley Medical Center/Michigan State University – Flint, Mich.
  • Indiana University School of Medicine – Indianapolis, Ind.
  • Lehigh Valley Health Network/University of South Florida College of Medicine – Allentown, Pa.
  • Louisiana State University – Baton Rouge, La.
  • Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center New Orleans – New Orleans, La.
  • Louisiana State University in Shreveport – Shreveport, La.
  • Madigan Army Medical Center – Tacoma, Wash.
  • Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine – Huntington, W.Va.
  • McLaren Health Care/Macomb Hospital/Michigan State University – Mount Clemens, Mich.
  • McLaren Health Care/McLaren Greater Lansing/MSU – Lansing, Mich.
  • Medical College of Georgia – Augusta, Ga.
  • The Medical University of South Carolina – Charleston, S.C.
  • Mount Sinai Medical Center of Florida – Miami Beach, Fla.
  • Nassau University Medical Center – East Meadow, N.Y.
  • National Capital Consortium – Bethesda, Md.
  • Naval Medical Center Portsmouth – Portsmouth, Va.
  • Naval Medical Center San Diego – San Diego, Calif.
  • Newark Beth Israel Medical Center – Newark, N.J.
  • Ohio State University/Mount Carmel Health System – Columbus, Ohio
  • Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences – Tulsa, Okla.
  • Osteopathic Medical Education Consortium of Oklahoma – Tulsa, Okla.
  • Prisma Health/University of South Carolina School of Medicine Columbia – Columbia, S.C.
  • Rowan School of Medicine/Jefferson Health/Virtua Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital – Stratford, N.J.
  • Rush University Medical Center – Chicago, Ill.
  • Rutgers Health/Jersey City Medical Center – Jersey City, N.J.
  • Rutgers Health/Robert Wood Johnson Medical School – New Brunswick, N.J.
  • Rutgers New Jersey Medical School – Newark, N.J.
  • Rutgers New Jersey Medical School/St. Barnabas Medical Center – Livingston, N.J.
  • RWJ Barnabas Health/Monmouth Medical Center – Long Branch, N.J.
  • Saint Peter’s University Hospital/Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School – New Brunswick, N.J.
  • San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium – Houston, Texas
  • Southern Illinois University – Springfield, Ill.
  • Sparrow Health/University of Michigan – Lansing, Mich.
  • Spectrum Health/Michigan State University – Grand Rapids, Mich.
  • Summa Health System/Northeast Ohio Medical University – Akron, Ohio
  • SUNY Downstate Health Sciences University – Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • SUNY Upstate Medical University – Syracuse, N.Y.
  • Texas A&M College of Medicine Scott & White Medical Center – Temple, Texas
  • Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center – Amarillo, Texas
  • Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center – El Paso, Texas
  • Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center – Lubbock, Texas
  • Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center–Permian Basin – Odessa, Texas
  • Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center/The Hospitals of Providence Transmountain Campus – El Paso, Texas
  • Tripler Army Medical Center – Tripler AMC, Hawaii
  • University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, Ariz.
  • University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, Ariz.
  • University of California–Irvine – Orange, Calif.
  • University of California–San Francisco Fresno – Fresno, Calif.
  • University of Central Florida/HCA Florida Healthcare Graduate Medical Education (Greater Orlando) – Kissimmee, Fla.
  • University of Central Florida/HCA Healthcare GME – Gainesville, Fla.
  • University of Central Florida/HCA Healthcare GME – Pensacola, Fla.
  • University of Cincinnati Medical Center/College of Medicine – Cincinnati, Ohio
  • University of Colorado – Aurora, Colo.
  • University of Connecticut – Farmington, Conn.
  • University of Florida – Gainesville, Fla.
  • University of Florida – Pensacola, Fla.
  • University of Florida College of Medicine Jacksonville – Jacksonville, Fla.
  • University of Hawaii – Honolulu, Hawaii
  • University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria – Peoria, Ill.
  • University of Illinois College of Medicine – Chicago, Ill.
  • University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics – Iowa City, Iowa
  • University of Kansas – Wichita, Kan.
  • University of Kansas School of Medicine – Kansas City, Kan.
  • University of Kentucky College of Medicine – Bowling Green, Ky.
  • University of Kentucky College of Medicine – Lexington, Ky.
  • University of Louisville School of Medicine – Louisville, Ky.
  • University of Massachusetts – Worcester, Mass.
  • University of Michigan Health System – Ann Arbor, Mich.
  • University of Michigan Health–West – Wyoming, Mich.
  • University of Minnesota – Minneapolis, Minn.
  • University of Mississippi Medical Center – Jackson, Miss.
  • University of Missouri – Columbia, Mo.
  • University of Missouri Kansas City School of Medicine – Kansas City, Mo.
  • University of Nebraska Medical Center College of Medicine – Omaha, Neb.
  • University of Nevada Las Vegas Kirk Kerkorian School of Medicine – Las Vegas, Nev.
  • University of New Mexico School of Medicine – Albuquerque, N.M.
  • University of North Carolina Hospitals – Chapel Hill, N.C.
  • University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center – Oklahoma City, Okla.
  • University of Oklahoma School of Community Medicine – Tulsa, Okla.
  • University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Graduate Medical Education – Harrisburg, Pa.
  • University of South Florida Health Morsani College of Medicine – Tampa, Fla.
  • University of Tennessee College of Medicine – Nashville, Tenn.
  • University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School – Galveston, Texas
  • University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston – Houston, Texas
  • University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio Joe and Teresa Lozano Long School of Medicine – San Antonio, Texas
  • University of Texas RGV School of Medicine (DHR Health) – Edinburg, Texas
  • University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center – Dallas, Texas
  • University of Toledo – Toledo, Ohio
  • University of Utah Health – Salt Lake, City, Utah
  • University of Washington – Seattle, Wash.
  • Virginia Commonwealth University Health System – Richmond, Va.
  • West Virginia University – Morgantown, W.Va.
  • Womack Army Medical Center – Fort Bragg, N.C.
  • Wright State University – Dayton, Ohio
  • Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell Health at South Shore University Hospital – Bay Shore, N.Y.

• OB/GYN Residency Programs That Have Not Clarified Their Use of Animals or Non-Animal Methods
  • Abington Memorial Hospital – Abington, Pa.
  • Adventist Health White Memorial – Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Advocate Health Care/Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center – Chicago, Ill.
  • Allegheny Health Network Medical Education Consortium – Pittsburgh, Pa.
  • AMITA Health Saint Francis Hospital – Evanston, Ill.
  • AMITA Health Saint Joseph Hospital – Chicago, Ill.
  • Arrowhead Regional Medical Center – Colton, Calif.
  • Ascension Genesys Hospital – Grand Blanc, Mich.
  • Ascension Providence Hospital/MSU College of Human Medicine – Southfield, Mich.
  • Ascension St. John Hospital – Detroit, Mich.
  • Ascension St. Vincent Hospital–Indianapolis – Indianapolis, Ind.
  • Atlantic Health System Morristown Medical Center – Morristown, N.J.
  • Atrium Health Navicent The Medical Center/Mercer University School of Medicine – Macon, Ga.
  • Baptist Memorial Medical Education – Memphis, Tenn.
  • Bayfront Health St. Petersburg – St Petersburg, Fla.
  • Baylor College of Medicine – Houston, Texas
  • Baylor Scott & White All Saints Medical Center–Fort Worth – Fort Worth, Texas
  • Baylor University Medical Center – Dallas, Texas
  • Beaumont Health – Farmington Hills, Mich.
  • Beaumont Hospital – Dearborn, Mich.
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – Boston, Mass.
  • Boston Medical Center – Boston, Mass.
  • Bridgeport Hospital/Yale University – Bridgeport, Conn.
  • Brigham and Women’s Hospital/Massachusetts General Hospital – Boston, Mass.
  • BronxCare Health System – Bronx, N.Y.
  • Brooklyn Hospital Center – Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Campbell University – Fayetteville, N.C.
  • Carle Foundation Hospital – Urbana, Ill.
  • Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center – Cleveland, Ohio
  • Cedars-Sinai Medical Center – Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Christiana Care Health Services – Newark, Del.
  • Cleveland Clinic Foundation – Cleveland, Ohio
  • Creighton University School of Medicine – Omaha, Neb.
  • Creighton University School of Medicine – Phoenix, Ariz.
  • Crozer-Chester Medical Center – Upland, Pa.
  • Danbury Hospital – Danbury, Conn.
  • Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center/Mary Hitchcock Memorial Hospital – Lebanon, N.H.
  • Duke University Hospital – Durham, N.C.
  • East Tennessee State University Quillen College of Medicine – Johnson City, Tenn.
  • Einstein Healthcare Network – Philadelphia, Pa.
  • Emory University School of Medicine – Atlanta, Ga.
  • Flushing Hospital Medical Center – Flushing, N.Y.
  • Garden City Hospital – Garden City, Mich.
  • Geisinger Health System – Danville, Pa.
  • The George Washington University – Washington, D.C.
  • Good Samaritan University Hospital – West Islip, N.Y.
  • Hackensack University Medical Center – Hackensack, N.J.
  • HCA Healthcare Las Palmas Del Sol Healthcare – El Paso, Texas
  • HCA Healthcare Midwest Health/Overland Park Regional Medical Center – Overland Park, Kan.
  • HCA Healthcare Sunrise Health Graduate Medical Education – Las Vegas, Nev.
  • HCA Healthcare University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine Graduate Medical Education/Brandon Regional Hospital – Brandon, Fla.
  • HCA Medical City Healthcare University of North Texas–Texas Christian University Graduate Medical Education – Arlington, Texas
  • Henry Ford Macomb Hospital – Clinton Township, Mich.
  • Henry Ford Wyandotte Hospital – Wyandotte, Mich.
  • Houston Methodist Hospital – Houston, Texas
  • Howard University – Washington, D.C.
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/Mount Sinai Hospital – New York, N.Y.
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/NYC Health and Hospitals – Jamaica, N.Y.
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/South Nassau – Oceanside, N.Y.
  • Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai West – New York, N.Y.
  • Inova Fairfax Medical Campus – Falls Church, Va.
  • Inspira Health Network/Inspira Medical Center Vineland – Vineland, N.J.
  • Jamaica Hospital Medical Center – Jamaica, N.Y.
  • Jersey Shore University Medical Center – Neptune, N.J.
  • John Peter Smith Hospital – Fort Worth, Texas
  • Johns Hopkins University – Baltimore, Md.
  • Kaiser Permanente Northern California – Oakland, Calif.
  • Kaiser Permanente Northern California – San Francisco, Calif.
  • Kaiser Permanente Northern California – Santa Clara, Calif.
  • Kaiser Permanente Southern California – Los Angeles, Calif.
  • Kern Medical Center – Bakersfield, Calif.
  • Kettering Health Network – Dayton, Ohio
  • Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center – Bronx, N.Y.
  • Loma Linda University Health Education Consortium – Loma Linda, Calif.
  • Loyola University Medical Center – Maywood, Ill.
  • Luminis Health Anne Arundel Medical Center – Annapolis, Md.
  • Maimonides Medical Center – Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Maine Medical Center – Portland, Maine
  • Main Line Health System Lankenau Medical Center – Wynnewood, Pa.
  • Marian Regional Medical Center – Santa Maria, Calif.
  • Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science – Rochester, Minn.
  • McGaw Medical Center of Northwestern University – Chicago, Ill.
  • Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals – Milwaukee, Wis.
  • Meharry Medical College – Nashville, Tenn.
  • Memorial Healthcare System – Hollywood, Fla.
  • Mercy Health – Muskegon, Mich.
  • Mercy Health St. Vincent Medical Center – Toledo, Ohio
  • Mercy Hospital – Louis, Mo.
  • Methodist Health System – Dallas, Texas
  • The MetroHealth System/Case Western Reserve University – Cleveland, Ohio
  • Morehouse School of Medicine – Atlanta, Ga.
  • Mountain Area Health Education Center – Asheville, N.C.
  • Mount Sinai Hospital Medical Center – Chicago, Ill.
  • New Hanover Regional Medical Center – Wilmington, N.C.
  • New York City Health and Hospitals/South Brooklyn Health – Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • New York Medical College/Westchester Medical Center – New York, N.Y.
  • New York-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital – Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medicine – New York, N.Y.
  • Northeast Georgia Medical Center – Gainesville, Ga.
  • Nuvance Health – Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
  • NYU Grossman School of Medicine – New York, N.Y.
  • Ochsner Clinic Foundation – New Orleans, La.
  • OhioHealth Doctors Hospital – Columbus, Ohio
  • OhioHealth Riverside Methodist Hospital – Columbus, Ohio
  • Orlando Health – Orlando, Fla.
  • Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center – Hershey, Pa.
  • Pennsylvania Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Health System – Philadelphia, Pa.
  • Prisma Health/University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville – Greenville, S.C.
  • Richmond University Medical Center – Staten Island, N.Y.
  • Riverside Regional Medical Center – Newport News, Va.
  • Saint Joseph Hospital – Denver, Colo.
  • San Juan City Hospital – San Juan, P.R.
  • Santa Clara Valley Medical Center – San Jose, Calif.
  • Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University – Philadelphia, Pa.
  • Sinai Hospital – Baltimore, Md.
  • Stamford Hospital/Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons – Stamford, Conn.
  • Stanford Health Care/Stanford University – Stanford, Calif.
  • Anthony Hospital – Oklahoma City, Okla.
  • David’s Healthcare Graduate Medical Education – Austin, Texas
  • Francis Hospital and Medical Center – Hartford, Conn.
  • John’s Episcopal Hospital – Far Rockaway, N.Y.
  • Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor – Ypsilanti, Mich.
  • Joseph Mercy Oakland – Pontiac, Mich.
  • Joseph’s University Medical Center – Paterson, N.J.
  • Luke’s University Hospital – Bethlehem, Pa.
  • Temple University Hospital – Philadelphia, Pa.
  • Tower Health/Phoenixville Hospital – Phoenixville, Pa.
  • Tower Health/Reading Hospital – Reading, Pa.
  • TriHealth (Bethesda North and Good Samaritan Hospitals) – Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Tufts Medical Center – Boston, Mass.
  • Tulane University – New Orleans, La.
  • University of Alabama Medical Center – South Birmingham, La.
  • University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine – Little Rock, Ark.
  • University of California Davis Health – Sacramento, Calif.
  • University of California San Francisco Health – San Francisco, Calif.
  • University of Chicago – Chicago, Ill.
  • University of Maryland – Baltimore, Md.
  • University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School–Baystate – Springfield, Mass.
  • University of Miami Jackson Health System – Miami, Fla.
  • University of Pennsylvania Health System – Philadelphia, Pa.
  • University of Puerto Rico – San Juan, P.R.
  • University of Rochester – Rochester, N.Y.
  • University of Southern California/Los Angeles General Medical Center – Los Angeles, Calif.
  • University of Tennessee College of Medicine – Chattanooga, Tenn.
  • University of Tennessee Medical Center – Knoxville, Tenn.
  • University of Tennessee – Memphis, Tenn.
  • University of Texas Medical Branch Hospitals – Galveston, Texas
  • University of Vermont Medical Center – Burlington, Vt.
  • University of Virginia Medical Center – Charlottesville, Va.
  • USA Health – Mobile, La.
  • Vidant Medical Center/East Carolina University – Greenville, N.C.
  • Virtua – Voorhees, N.J.
  • Wake Forest University School of Medicine – Winston-Salem, N.C.
  • WellSpan Health/York Hospital – York, Pa.
  • Wellstar Kennestone Regional Medical Center – Marietta, Ga.
  • Western Michigan University Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine – Kalamazoo, Mich.
  • Women and Infants Hospital/Brown University – Providence, R.I.
  • Wyckoff Heights Medical Center – Brooklyn, N.Y.
  • Yale New Haven Medical Center – New Haven, Conn.
  • Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Lenox Hill Hospital – New York, N.Y.
  • Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell at Staten Island University Hospital – Staten Island, N.Y.
  • Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell – Hempstead, N.Y.

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*No live animal use for OB/GYN residency training is confirmed via a statement issued by the program to PETA or via confirmation by the program that no responsive records exist for live animal use.