Continuing Education
Educational Offerings
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.
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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.
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Medical Students
University of Washington medical students attend lectures, conduct research projects as well as spend time at the Poison Center learning about all types of poisonings.
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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.
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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.
EMS and other Health Care Professionals can request a free DVD that explains how the Poison Center is a partner in patient care. The video is entertaining and very informative. Contact us to request the DVD. Please indicate your request for the EMS DVD.
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Pharmacy Students
Pharmacy students from the University of Washington, Washington State University, Creighton University, and The Ohio State University participate in four-week to six-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.
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