Goals and Objectives:

1. Foster a greater appreciation and understanding of Medical Toxicology as it pertains to the practice of Emergency Medicine.

2. Provide mentorship from Medical Toxicology faculty and opportunity to participate in longitudinal scholarly projects.

3. Prepare interested residents for application to Medical Toxicology Fellowships

Required Activities:

• Attend a WCMC consult service meeting quarterly to discuss interesting consult cases

• Attend 2 NYC PCC Consultants Conference per year in addition to tox rotation (virtual or in person)

• Participate in 2 ACMT/AACT toxicology webinars year (ACMT Case Conference, Grand Rounds, Addiction Conference, Forensic Conference etc)

• Tox Education Activities - complete 2 educational projects/year from the list below with mentorship from toxicology faculty

  • • Write and help to facilitate a SIM case to be used during morning report at WCMC or CUMC

    • Present a morning report on a toxicology subject

    • Author a clinical guideline for WCMC consultation service

    • Provide a lecture to Sub-I’s rotating on EM rotation

    • Author a blog post, podcast or other form of digital scholarship with faculty editor

    • Author an article in EMRA Resident Magazine, ALiEM/ACMT Tox Visual Pearls

    • Author 10 questions with answer explanations for ToxRunner Qbank

    • Tox case of the month

• Complete X-waiver training

• Attend Toxicology Journal Club

• Complete a longitudinal research project or QI project with a faculty member

• Bimonthly meeting with tox faculty to discuss tox topic – readings in EM texts, Tox Text (ie Goldfranks), FOAMED sites

Optional but encouraged activities:

• Join a national or regional committee (ie. EMRA toxicology section)

• Help to create a combined NYPEM residency toxicology online resource (either on nexus or another site which we can explore)

• Bronx Zoo Field Trip (annually vs. biannually depending on interest)

• “Tox Movie Night” – Hosted by faculty

• Tox Book Club

• Addiction Medicine Elective at WCMC

• Toxicology Elective

• Attend Toxicology Conference(s)-especially helpful for residents pursuing a toxicology fellowship for networking. ACMT Spring conference often has a resident track and a fellowship director meet and greet. NACCT Fall conference is a good place to network a month or two before match.

Track Directors

Track Faculty