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The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine offers a 4 week elective open to upper level Medical students.
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This four week clinical elective will provide students with experience in the assessment and treatment of toxicology patients. Students will spend time with toxicology faculty in consultation, examination, treatment, and follow-up of patients in the emergency, inpatient and outpatient settings. The clinical experience will include daily clinical rounds on inpatients, outpatient consults, including Children's Hospital, and Pittsburgh Poison Center case review. Medical students will be on-call daily with the rotating residents and medical toxicology staff member and will be expected to join the resident and attending on cases presenting to UPMC Presbyterian and Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh. A portion of the rotation will be at the Pittsburgh Poison Center, where students will learn from current patient cases and summary case reviews.
Daily teaching sessions will be provided by members of the Medical Toxicology Service on the spectrum of toxicology subjects. Sample topics include: initial approach to the toxicology patient, decontamination, acetaminophen, salicylates, toxic alcohols, antidepressants, iron and digoxin. Students will also attend the Medical Toxicology Service lectures. Additionally, the student will be encouraged to participate in on-going research projects if available (e.g. chart review). Students will also be encouraged to prepare interesting cases for scientific presentation and publication. The overall curriculum will help students develop their knowledge base in medical toxicology, and improve their ability to diagnose and treat a poisoned patient. For more information, please call (412)647-9922 or click the link for the School of Medicine homepage below.
OBJECTIVES:
1. To develop skills in the initial evaluation and treatment of poisoned patients.
2. To learn the fundamentals of medical toxicology and basic tenets of managing toxicology patients.
3. To understand the capabilities of and resources available through a regional Poison Center as applied to care of individual patients.
REQUIREMENTS:
1. Required readings from course syllabus
2. Clinical on-call duties during daylight hours, and during off-hours by arrangement
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University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Pittsburgh Poison Center information
Directions to the Pittsburgh Poison Center - Birmingham Towers, Suite 720, 2100 Wharton Street
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| Current Toxicology Rotator listing - November - 09 |
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EM Residents:
GMT - II
John Peoples, MD - 11/1 to 11/30
GMT I
Deborah Brooks, MD 11/1 to 11/15
MS-4(s)
11/2 to 11/29
Tarini Anand
David Atkinson
Additional Rotators
PEDS Fellow
Sean Button
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| Education and Teaching |
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Apart from providing clinical services to inpatients and outpatients, the Division of Medical Toxicology also provides educational lectures to medical staff throughout UPMC Health System's hospitals and affiliated hospitals.
Education
Below is a list of topics covered by our toxicologists, fellows and the emergency medicine and occupational medicine residents rounding on our service. Some of these lecture topics are available to professional groups: hospitals, medical staff, in-service training, nursing staff, or paramedic groups. If you are interested in having one of these lectures presented, please call 412-647-9922 for scheduling.
- Anticonvulsants
- Occupational toxiocology
- Life Threatening Drug Interactions
- Toxic Inhalants
- Pesticides
- Snakebite/Envenomations
- GI Decontamination
- Pentachlorophenol
- Radiation
- Clinical Update in Toxicology
- Approach to the Poisoned Patient
- Oral Hypoglycemic Agents
- Mushrooms: Toxic & Hallucinogenic
- Heavy Metals
- Solvents
- Tricyclic Antidepressants
- Common Overdoses
- Drugs of Abuse
- Analgesics
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Teaching
- Toxicology Core Curriculum Review for pediatric and adult
- Emergency Medicine Residents.
- Clinical Elective for Pediatric, Internal Medicine and
- Occupational Medicine residents
- Medical Toxicology Journal Club (weekly)
- Core Toxicology Review Topics for affiliated residencies (Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Occupational Medicine, Pediatrics and Psychiatry)
- Clinical Elective for medical students
- Clinical Elective for critical care fellows
- Continuing Medical Education and Outreach Conferences for regional MD's, RN's and EMT's.
- Toxicology component of medical student selective in Clinical Pharmacology.
- Toxicology for EMT-P classes at the Center for Emergency Medicine of Western Pennsylvania
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Core Lectures
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09-10AY Monday Toxicology Chapters
09-10AY Tuesday Toxicology Chapters
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Monday's Chapter's - Goldfrank's Toxicologic Emergencies 8th Ed.
Directions to new CHP campus in Lawrenceville
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