Clinical Implications of Human Poisoning will cover the clinical, historical, and public health aspects of toxicology resulting from human poisoning. The concepts covered in this course are essential to all medical and pharmaceutical disciplines. The students will learn and discuss the science as well as the science policy behind a large spectrum of toxins that have affected individual humans as well as large masses. The course will provide a (1) basic science introduction to toxicology, (2) a review of the clinical, historical, and controversial aspects of toxicology and (3) a discussion of the impact of toxicology on not only the human body but on the health of the population. Our focus will not be on the cellular level but will be on the organ, body, and population level. Students will learn through didactic lectures, patient narratives and cases, journal articles, simulation scenarios, and historical and public health reports, as well as video or audio media. Through these mediums, students will study real life scenarios of acute and long-term poisoning. Through the topics described in the course syllabus, this course will bring to focus the medical challenges in toxicology at the level of an individual patient as well as the related public health concerns. With the help of the lecturers, typically Emergency Medicine physicians and Medical Toxicologists, students will learn the scientific thought process behind solving these medical challenges. Please note, beginning Spring 2023, this will be a 3-credit course.
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