Also called: Toxicologist Physician
A physician expert in poisonings, overdoses, venomous bites, and chemical exposures.
Consults on an ER patient who drank antifreeze, advises a poison center about a scorpion sting, and helps public health officials after a chemical spill. Some work with the military on chemical weapons defense.
Estimate; BLS top-codes physician wages.
Approximate: anchored on Bureau of Labor Statistics data for a broader job group.
Professional degree (MD, JD, DVM…), about 14 years after high school. Bachelor's, medical school, an emergency medicine or other residency, then a 2-year toxicology fellowship.
Ways in: 4-year college, Professional school. Training cost: Over $150k.
Majors to look at: Biology, Chemistry, Pre-Medicine, Chemistry.
Growing about average. Tiny specialty with only a few hundred practitioners.
Low risk for 10 years. AI can look up poisons and drug interactions; rare, messy overdose and bite cases need expert human judgment.
Classes: AP Chemistry, AP Biology, Organic chemistry (dual enroll), Environmental science.
Official data: O*NET occupation 29-1229.
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