Clinical Toxicology and Emergency Medicine

Catalog Description: This course offers the student the opportunity to be involved in the initial stages of providing critical care to the patient with serious, sometimes life-threatening medical problems. The student will develop understanding of the application of certain procedural principles of critical care and the fundamentals of Clinical Toxicology. These include drug overdoses, acute alcohol intoxication and withdrawal syndromes, antidotes, toxic inhalations, some environmental toxins, indications for hemoperfusion/dialysis, street drug problems and principles of pediatric poisonings.

Syllabus

Note: Contact the Course Coordinator for any syllabi for previous years. 

Sites:

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Required session attendance: Does not apply

Typical weekly schedule/Delivery Mode: M-F, 8:00am-4:00pm, working directly with faculty

Direct patient care: Yes

Consent Requirement: Arranged. Please submit a request to schedule using the form linked below.

EMMD Arranged Electives Form

Grading Scale: H/E/S/N

Allow repetition of course: Repetition not allowed

Course equivalency: Does not apply