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American Board of Applied Toxicology (ABAT)
The American Board of Applied Toxicology (ABAT) is a standing committee of the
American Academy of Clinical Toxicology (AACT), and was created to recognize non-physician
clinical toxicologists. ABAT members are recognized as clinical toxicologists
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The American Board of Applied Toxicology establishes and maintains
national standards of excellence for clinical toxicologists through a rigorous credentialing,
examination, and re-credentialing process to board certify its diplomates. These
diplomates possess the required knowledge, experience, and competence to provide
toxicology expertise to poison centers, inter-professional patient care teams, public
health entities, academia, professional associations, the pharmaceutical and chemical
industries, government, judicial systems and others in need of clinical toxicology
services. The ABAT is committed to the continual professional development of these
clinical toxicologists* and serves as a resource for clinical toxicology education
of health care professionals. The ABAT vigorously advocates for provision of clinical
toxicology services by its members.
* For the purposes of this statement, a clinical toxicologist has an earned doctoral
degree in a biomedical discipline (other than medicine or veterinary science) or
a baccalaureate degree in a health science discipline (such as pharmacy or nursing),
in addition to the requisite experience in applied clinical toxicology. |
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