Toxicology Fellowship

The Medical Toxicology Fellowship Program at Texas Tech University of Health Sciences Center at El Paso (TTUHSC-EP) in collaboration with the West Texas Regional Poison Center gained the campus’ first ACGME fellowship accreditation in 2010. Located in El Paso, Texas along the US/Mexico border, fellows are afforded an unparalleled experience to interface with an extensive array of toxicological issues distinctive of our bi-national region. In addition, our fellows are exposed to leading research being carried out at the TTHUSC-EP Paul L. Foster School of Medicine, the country’s first and only American medical school along the US/Mexico border’s 2,000 mile stretch.

The toxicology fellowship is a 24-month training program designed to leverage the vast breadth of pathology endemic to our international border. As such, fellows will be exposed to a widespread curriculum, including, active involvement in a recently developed state-of –the-art CBRN simulation center currently under development, where they will be trained to manage a broad scope of chemical, biological and nuclear exposures. In addition, fellows will receive training in disaster preparedness, industrial hygiene and safety, occupational and environmental medicine and substance abuse and abstinence syndromes. Because El Paso’s geographic location places it at a crossroads of both intentional and non-intentional importation of illicit drugs and other chemical and biological hazards, fellows will have the advantage of expanding their treatment skills to less traditional forms of toxicological pathologies. The toxicology fellowship at TTUHSC-EP understands the insurmountable affects that toxicology hazards place on our community’s public health and the important role of cutting-edge research. Therefore, in addition to participating in current research activities, fellows will partake in educational opportunities offered by the two schools of public health located in El Paso.

Upon successful completion, fellows will be prepared to pursue academic, clinical, or administrative careers in Medical Toxicology. Those who meet all requirements may sit for the subspecialty exam of the American Board of Medical Specialties upon completion of this ACGME-approved fellowship.