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Scott Wiley, RN, CSPI consults with Fellow Dr. Tracey Reilly about a call to the Blue Ridge Poison Center
The fellowship’s first year is devoted to developing clinical skills in medical toxicology. The fellow is responsible for the clinical consultation service and medical back-up for the Blue Ridge Poison Center. Occupational/environmental exposures are evaluated in an outpatient clinic. Also, the fellow is the direct supervisor of residents rotating from other house staff services.
The first year concentrates on reading and attending didactics in order to gain knowledge of the basic principles of acute care toxicology, occupational/environmental, pharmacology, mechanisms of toxicity and practical aspects of basic sciences. Time is spent exploring areas of special interest and formulating the potential research questions that will be the focus of the second year.
Second year activities are flexible, so that the fellow can focus on special interests or research activities. The second year still provides experiences to improve clinical skills but an increased emphasis is placed on educational techniques (writing and speaking) and research methodology. Therefore, the clinical responsibilities are negotiable and may be decreased depending on the type of projects the fellow chooses. Directed readings and didactics are more focused on research methodology, critical appraisal of the literature, in-depth understanding of mechanisms, faculty development skills, and administrative skills for medical direction of poison centers and toxicology treatment centers.
Curriculum Details
Clinical Skills
Acute care toxicology
Management of poisoning by drugs of abuse
Management of poisoning by pharmaceuticals
Management of poisoning by household products
Management of poisoning by industrial/agricultural products
Management of poisoning by plants/mushrooms/food contamination
Management of poisoning by envenomations
Management of acute withdrawal syndromes
Critical Care for Acute Poisoning
Occupational toxicology and Environmental toxicology
Injury prevention/poison prevention
Risk communication
Emergency Response to Hazardous Materials and Weapons of Mass Destruction
Hyperbaric medicine
Basic Sciences
Mechanisms of toxicity
Biochemistry
Pathophysiology
Pharmacology
Toxicokinetics
Adverse Drug Events/Drug interactions
Teratogens/carcinogens
Analytical Toxicology Laboratory
Forensic toxicology
Research
Research methodology
Evidence-based medicine: Applying research evidence in clinical practice
Statistics
Administrative Skills
Poison Center operations
Regional Toxicology Treatment Center Operations
Academic Faculty Development Skills
Communications and teaching
Speaking and writing skills
Teaching/presenting data with graphics and illustration
Computers/Informatics
Leadership and Mentoring
Time Management
Business Management
Grantmanship
For more information contact:
Mark A. Kirk, MD
Medical Toxicology Fellowship Director
Division of Medical Toxicology
Department of Emergency Medicine
Box 800699
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA 22908-0699
Phone: 434-924-0347
FAX: 434-971-8657
Email: mak4z@virginia.edu
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