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Professional Development/Education
CEU Opportunities
All health care professionals can look forward to a career of life-long learning. The field of toxicology exemplifies this challenge. Today, we need access to information about more than 50 million chemicals. This number was only one million half a century ago.
The Washington Poison Center conducts several weekly, in-house education programs to help prepare practicing health care professionals. We host on-site trainees from the state universities' professional schools and programs including medical, pharmacy and nursing students, fellows, residents and other trainees. They receive training in how to access information to handle toxic exposures during their careers.
Pharmacy Students
Pharmacy students from both the University of Washington and Washington State University participate in four-week rotations at the Poison Center. During their rotations, students learn how to manage many of the problems posed to the center, including how to evaluate an exposure and provide accurate responses and treatment plans.
Interested in a tour? See below.
Medical Students
University of Washington medical students see films, attend lectures, conduct research projects as well as spend time at the Poison Center learning about all types of poisonings.
Paramedic Students
Paramedic students from Central Washington University and the Clark County Training Center each spend a day at the Washington Poison Center touring the center and listening to calls with a poison specialist. Future paramedics get to see how the Poison Center can be an additional resource for the 911 responder in the care and treatment of patients in the field.
Interested in a tour? See below.
Occupational Medicine Fellows
University of Washington fellows, preparing for careers in occupational and environmental medicine, spend varying lengths of time at the Poison Center. They often use data from the center as a basis for their thesis requirement and some have been subsequently published. It is a win-win situation for the trainees and ourselves.
Emergency Medical Residents
Resident physicians at the University of Washington-Madigan Army Hospital Emergency Medicine Program participates in a toxicology rotation at the Poison Center. Toxicology is a one-month program. Trainees review poisoning cases and learn how to assess problems relating to the effects of drugs and toxins. Through the program, students are introduced to the field of toxicology and given a greater familiarity with the services of the center.
Orientation and Tours
Every year, the Washington Poison Center hosts a number of health professionals seeking information about our services and resources. We frequently provide orientation and tours to pharmacists, nurses, physicians, medics and many others wanting to know more about the center.
- If you are a an EMT, paramedic or student and would like to visit the Poison Center, please call 1-800-222-1222 and ask for Joe.
- If you are a nurse, pharmacist or student and would like to visit the Poison Center, please call 1-800-222-1222 and ask for Katie.
- Or fill out our online form requesting a professions tour or visit.
Poison Network Newsletter / Continuing Education
Our medical staff prepares a quarterly newsletter called Poison Network for all emergency physicians across our state. The newsletter is also distributed to various other emergency personnel throughout the Pacific Northwest. Poison Network provides toxicology columns for other newsletters prepared by state organizations, such as family practitioners of pediatrics. CEUs are available.
Poison Network available for download:
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