Toxicology

Elective in Toxicology

Elective director:

Name: Zane Horowitz (admin Lynn Cox)

Email: please email coxly@ohsu.edu and horowiza@ohsu.edu

office location: 5^th floor Campus Services Building (between CDRC & School of Nursing)

Elective duration:

2 or 3 weeks

Elective goal:

Provide excellent experience in a broad range of areas related to medical toxicology

Elective overview:

A typical day is to meet at the Poison Center at 8 am and pre-round on inpatient consultations. There is typically a team doing the Toxicology rotation that includes an Emergency Medicine resident, several medical students, residents from other specialties (e.g. internal medicine, critical care), a pharmacy student, the fellows and toxicology faculty. The team then rounds on inpatient consultations in the morning. Our inpatient consultative service cares for patients in both the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU) and the Doernbecher Children's Hospital (DCH).

After in-patient consultations, the students and residents present information on our hospitalized patients that are being followed by the Poison Center, then discuss them in "rounds" until noon. There is a scheduled didactic every afternoon that includes a variety of presentations from the medical students, residents, pharmacy students, and fellows; "antidote of the day", "clinical toxicology questions", "toxicology visual aid/board review", "toxicology disaster of the week", "new medication of the week", journal club, journal review, dogma review, and "minor toxicology topics review".

More details of didactics at http://www.ohsu.edu/emergency/education/fellowships/toxicology/curriculum.cfm

Resident expectations on elective:

Round on patients daily.

Complete required readings.

Present on topic of interest.

Engage in didactics and educational sessions

Schedule:

Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm