This course is designed to provide the basics on health and clinical toxicology topics catered to healthcare providers with the emphasis on their roles in managing and preventing toxicology cases or incidents.
This package is part of the National Poison Centre’s courseware known as Integrated Health Toxicology Courseware (IHTOC), a resource tool for multilevel course integrating the elements of drug/poison information service and clinical and public health toxicology, which is customizable to cater to different demands of competencies in the field of Toxicology. 

COURSE OUTCOME
The courseware targeted to improve the participants ability to:
* describe the roles and responsibilities of healthcare providers in managing toxicological exposure cases.
* recognize the role of the Malaysian National Poison Centre (NPC) in handling toxicological exposure cases and related issues in the country.
* highlight the trend of poisoning exposure in Malaysia based on the statistics of cases referred for enquiries to the Drug and Poison Information Service of the NPC.
* identify the common drugs/poisons/natural toxins involved in toxicological exposure cases in Malaysia, the basic classification and identification features.
* explain the toxicity of common substances including the clinical effects, severity and range of toxicity.
* describe the antidotes/antivenoms available in the country, the indications and dosing regiments.
* assist on the diagnosis and design patient care plan based on basic knowledge on toxicology laboratory analysis/screening available in Malaysia.
* identify reliable information sources to consult for drug/poison information requests for toxicological cases. 

TARGET GROUP/PARTICIPANTS
This courseware has been developed in an effort to assist all healthcare providers in all settings to strengthen their abilities to provide appropriate poisoning and toxicology management. The main categories of healthcare team members involved in managing toxicological cases including:
* Medical doctors/specialists
* Pharmacists
* Paramedics (Medical assistant, Nurse etc)
* Medical and Health Sciences Students
* Poison Information Specialist/Officers
* Toxicology-related field practitioners

 

List of Subjects/Packages

Self-learning online platform package   - Introduction to the National Poison Centre USM   - Module 1: Introduction to Drug and Poison Information Service   - Module 2: Evidence from Drug and Poison Information Sources and Clinical Literatures   - Module 3: Internet as a Source of Reference   - Module 4: How to Critically Appraise a Drug and Poison Paper?   - Module 5: How to Handle Drug and Poison Enquiries?  Topics in live session (upon completion of self-learning lessons)   - Hands-on activity – Poisoning simulation cases   - Skill assessment and case discussion  Additional modules (optional) – Live sessions   - Module 6: What is Poison and Poisoning?   - Module 7: Roles of healthcare providers in assessing the risk of poisoning exposure and poisoning prevention   - Module 8: Management of Acute Poisoning-General Approaches   - Module 9: Common Pharmaceutical Poisoning & Case Studies   - Module 10: Common Household Poisoning   - Module 11: Animal Toxicology   - Module 12: Common Poisonous Plants   - Module 13: Pesticide Poisoning   - Module 14: Industrial Chemical Poisoning   - Module 15: Toxicological Analysis: What and When to Measure?   Supplementary Topics   • Substances of Abuse   • Smoking Cessation / Tobacco Control Initiatives   • Introduction to the NPC’s Education and Prevention Programs   • Informatics for Community Health   • Poisoning Call Centre and Data Management   • Identification of Chemicals in Medicine/Poison Products   • Poisoning Case Studies   • Observation of Audio Recorded Cases   • Introduction to Environmental Health Toxicology   • Occupational Poisoning   • Food Toxicology   • Genotoxicity and Cytotoxicity