Author Dr Syed Ilyas Shehnaz, of the Department of Pharmacology at Gulf Medical University said: “We considered it necessary to investigate alternative exercises which would expose the students to experimental methodology with scientific explanation. In an effort to identify alternatives to animal experiments and CAL at the undergraduate level, we introduced a new experiment in the teaching curriculum of Bachelor of Medicine/Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) and Pharm D (Doctor of Pharmacy) programmes.”

More details of the experiment can be found on the Pilas Website at
http://pilas.org.uk/coffee-in-class-an-alternative-to-animal-experiments-in-pharmacology/

Source:
http://www.frame.org.uk/coffee-test/