Solving the Toxicology Education Crisis

Each year, tens of thousands of North Americans experience intentional and unintentional poisonings and overdoses from both prescription drugs and other widely available chemicals and substances that can result in serious illness and even death. To make matters worse, training for front-line healthcare professionals is severely lacking as few programs exist at the undergraduate level that can equip practitioners with the required knowledge and skills to master the management of the three most important poisonings. 

In order to help remedy this situation, the McGill School of Continuing Studies and the Montreal Medical Toxicology Initiative (MMTI) will be hosting a free webinar entitled Solving the Toxicology Education Crisis. Led by Dre Sophie Gosselin from McGill University Emergency Medicine, the Centre Antipoison du Québec and the Hôpital Charles-Lemoyne in Montréal, Canada, and Dr. Robert S. Hoffman, from NYU School of Medicine and New York City Poison Control Centre. Aimed at educators, healthcare professionals or teaching institutions involved with teaching health care professional toxicology , this webinar will explore topics including: 

• The current state of toxicology teachings
• The complexity of the number of toxins treatments
• Factors which prevents hospital staff from making correct and timely diagnoses (and the consequences of late or incorrect diagnoses)
• Why toxicology training for frontline practitioners is critical yet lacking 

Finally, for those interested, the speakers will present the online, self-paced training in toxicology for frontline practitioners that was recently launched.

Register at https://www.mcgill.ca/x/Zx7