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09-101 INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL TOXICOLOGY
Department EMERGENCY MED Campus Birmingham
Course Type(s) Elective Facility UAB Medical Center
Course Director SUKHSHANT ATTI, MD Enrollment Limit 5
Contact AUBREY LUALLEN Enrollment Minimum 3
Email aluallen@uabmc.edu Address GSB 207A
Phone (205) 975-8599 Fax
Weeks
Normally Offered
See Offering Dates		 18-19, 22-23, 32-33, 36-37, 40-41
Prerequisites Internal Medicine Cllerkship 
Specific Clerkship Prerequisites: Medicine
Visiting Students
No LCME students accepted.
No osteopathic students accepted.
Course Description Students will present each morning at 8:30am in the conference room of the Poison Control Center along a PGY2 Emergency Medicine Resident. Toxicology cases called into the poison center over the preceding 24 hours will be reviewed with the students; each students will be given an actual situation and then explain his or her management and treatment. Students will continue to follow along with their cases through the poison center. The Regional Poison Control Center at Children's of Alabama covers a population of 5 million with several excellent teaching cases available for review each day. After reviewing morning cases, the students will undergo 2-3 hours of focused learning activities each morning that will include didactics, simulation, journal club, and trips to the Birmingham Zoo and the Birmingham Botanical Gardens to review toxic animals and plants. Each afternoon, all students will be on call while pursuing self-directed learning; students will be contacted to evaluate along with a Medical Toxicology Faculty Member any severely poisoned patient or a patient with educational historical or exam findings. At the end of their two week rotation, all students will have to present a current article in press regarding toxicology and will have to give a short (approximately 15-20 min) ·presentation. Learning Objectives: a. Recognition of common toxidromes with which the poisoned patient will present b. Management of the critically ill poisoned patient c. Review relevant pharmacology and drug interactions of common medications d. Understand the role the poison center can play in his or her future practice
Where To Report University Emergency Department/Alabama Poison Information Center
Requirements Students will be given a list of articles that they will be required to complete over the two week course. All students will be required to be available each afternoon to evaluate any poisoned patient that presents to the Emergency Department at UAB. Students will also be expected to follow patients through the poison center. At the end of their rotation, all students will give a short presentation.
Evaluation Pass/Fail. Evaluation will be multifactorial. It will include the quality of student management of individual patients with regards to extent of differential diagnosis, ability to interpret pertinent patient information, and understanding of current treatments in medical toxicology. Furthermore, all students will be required to present on a short topic chosen by the medical toxicology faculty and will have to present a current article in press during toxicology journal club. Their ability to synthesize information and explain it in a manner that demonstrates their comprehension of the material will be considered into his or her evaluation.
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