Virginia Commonwealth University

Additional Info

Fellowship Director Name : Emily Kershner

Fellowship Director Email : Emily.Kershner@vcuhealth.org

Fellowship Coordinator Name : Sharon Fleming

Fellowship Coordinator Email : Sharon.Fleming@vcuhealth.org

Medical School Affiliation : VCU SOM

Do you accept international applicants? : No

Clinical Training Structure : Balanced mix of consult service and poison center call

Applications welcome from (Select all): : Emergency Medicine

Number Of Medical Toxicology Fellows : 2-3

Fellowship Program Description : This fellowship includes rigorous core content studies through weekly didactic sessions, faculty lectures and review of comprehensive articles and textbook chapters during the first year. Fellows also gain valuable teaching experience by engaging with the residency programs, School of Medicine and School of Pharmacy through lectures, small-group discussions and mock oral board examinations. Fellows may have the opportunity to either attend ACEP Research Academy or Advanced Research Methodology Evaluation and Design (ARMED) depending on their interests.

Second-year fellows lead teaching rounds in the Virginia Poison Center. Didactics during year two are increasingly focused on board preparation, with weekly case conferences and journal clubs progressively utilizing primary literature to address clinical questions, controversies or myths germane to the subspecialty. Fellows are directly involved in all aspects of the Division of Clinical Toxicology, which includes an active consultation service that evaluates about 250 inpatient and 40 outpatient clinic patients each year.

The program also focuses on teaching, and the division runs the medical toxicology clinical rotation that annually hosts about 180 emergency medicine, internal medicine and pediatric residents, along with medical students, visiting residents and fellows and pharmacy students and residents. We also provide professional education for EMS providers, nurses, medical students, residents and physicians with at least 250 lectures at local, regional and national venues.