Which residencies make you eligible for a tox fellowship?

I'm a bit confused about the eligibility requirements for toxicology fellowships. FREIDA separates medical toxicology programs into those associated with emergency medicine and those associated with preventive medicine. Could a PM trained physician do one of the EM fellowships, or vice versa? Also, looking at specific program websites, it looks like some programs will take applicants from many different specialties - for example, "fellowship in medical toxicology is open to physicians who have completed ACGME-accredited residency training in emergency medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, or other primary care residencies" (from the Banner Health program in Arizona).

Can anyone explain? Thank you!

Originally Posted by CopperStripes

I'm a bit confused about the eligibility requirements for toxicology fellowships. FREIDA separates medical toxicology programs into those associated with emergency medicine and those associated with preventive medicine. Could a PM trained physician do one of the EM fellowships, or vice versa? Also, looking at specific program websites, it looks like some programs will take applicants from many different specialties - for example, "fellowship in medical toxicology is open to physicians who have completed ACGME-accredited residency training in emergency medicine, pediatrics, internal medicine, or other primary care residencies" (from the Banner Health program in Arizona).

Can anyone explain? Thank you!

Ok, here goes.

Technically, you could do a tox fellowship from ANY primary specialty, if you could get a program to accept you as a fellow... you just can't sit for boards unless you train in EM, peds, or PrevMed/OccMed (as these are the 3 sponsoring primary boards)... this is similar to the rules for critical care & EM a few years back - EM residency grads could do CCM fellowships, but were not eligible to sit for the US boards and thus could not be "board certified" in CCM.

Generally speaking, you could do any MedTox fellowship coming from any of these 3 primary specialties; the ones that are associated with OccMed are, by virtue of their design, more focused on occupational factors while those from EM and peds are more hospital-based... but either will train you well for the herculean task that is the Med Tox board exam.

Hope this helps!
-t

Yes, that helps! Thank you!

I am also interested in tox fellowship. Can some one please through some light on practice set ups for toxicologists?

Thanks!