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Medical Toxicology Fellowship
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Medical Toxicology Fellowship

Occupational/Environmental Medicine

Core concepts of occupational toxicology are taught in a 3-credit class, “Introduction to Toxicology”, in the George Washington University School of Public Health. This course emphasizes basic toxicokinetics and toxicodynamics of the principle occupational and environmental toxic hazards. If the fellow is unable to take the entire course due to scheduling constraints, an equivalent overview of occupational toxicology will be structured through directed reading, building on the physician's basic knowledge of pharmacology.  An introductory course in industrial hygiene is available for Fellows, as well as a second-level advanced course applying approaches from these disciplines (and epidemiology and policy analysis) to case studies.  The fellow will also participate in the weekly seminar of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, which frequently features topics related to acute and chronic workplace exposure to intoxicants.

Faculty of the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health have extensive experience and current interests in workplace health protection and will provide opportunities for selected fellows to work on projects such as support for the ILO/WHO International Programme for the Elimination of Silicosis, the DC Lead Elimination Task Force, prevention of toxic gas exposure in the oil and gas industry, and many other possible topics.

Environmental toxicology (including an introduction to ecotoxicology, fate and disposition) is taught in the above-referenced course in introductory toxicology and is a major emphasis of the advanced course based on case studies. Means of assessment and basics of environmental controls are taught in great detail in the course in industrial hygiene.

The Center for Risk Science and Public Health is an entity within the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health that is committed to service and research excellence in risk science. The fellow may be invited to take part in activities of the Center, which have most recently included assistance to the local water utility on issues related to lead in drinking water, risk assessment methodology, and studies of risk perception.

The Mid-Atlantic Center for Children's Health and Environment (MACCHE) is a special resource available to fellows. As interest and opportunity allow, fellows will be able to:

  • Answer (numerous) parent inquiries;

  • Follow-up on inquiries and/or conduct evaluations;

  • Produce tutorials or other materials for Continuing Medical Education, including web-based tools;

  • Work with faculty to develop health education and risk communication materials;

  • Select, develop, and carry out research proposals;

  • Develop expertise in lead poisoning by seeing patients in the lead clinic at Children’s National Medical Center and participating in activities of the D.C. Lead Elimination Task Force;

  • Assist the American Association against Mental Retardation’s environmental health program, currently focused on lead, mercury, and PCBs.

MACCHE also supports many outreach activities and an annual conference, with sessions on principal environmental toxic and related hazards. The program for 2005 will include presentations on air pollution and asthma triggers, lead, mercury, mold, and household safety.

 


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