Pesticide Exposure and Treatment Education for Health Care Providers

The Casa y Campo Project has developed a continuing education program for health care providers on farmworker pesticide exposure.  The target audience for this program includes health care providers and outreach workers who work with farmworkers and rural populations.  The continuing education activity includes 6 modules, each lasting 10 to 30 minutes. 

1. Pesticides provides a general overview of pesticides and crops in the Southeast.

2. Pesticide Exposure reviews the signs and symptoms and initial treatment of the ten pesticides most commonly implicated in symptomatic illness.

3. Long Term Consequences of Pesticide Exposure in Farmworker Communities reviews the literature on the health consequences of pesticide exposure.

4. Skill Sets discusses the basic medical skills needed to treat pesticide exposure.

5. Clinical Cases reviews the differential diagnosis of organophosphate toxicity.

6. Patient Education reviews the principles for farmworker pesticide safety education and prevention.

The program is available on the Northwest Area Health Education Center website: http://northwestahec.wfubmc.edu/ahecevents1.cfm?list_details=all_details&event_pk=12627&nosearch=1

The program is also available on CD by contacting Tom Arcury at tarcury@....  

The Wake Forest University School of Medicine designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.5 category 1 credits toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award.  Each physician should claim only those credits that he/she actually spent in the activity.  The Wake Forest University School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.  Wake Forest University School of Medicine will award .15 Continuing Education Units.  This activity is sponsored by Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

Casa y Camp is a community-based collaborative project of Wake Forest University School of Medicine and the North Carolina Farmworkers Project.   Ann Hiott, MD, Thomas A. Arcury, PhD, and Sara A. Quandt, PhD, developed the program in partnership with the Northwest Area Health Education Center (AHEC). 

Funding for the program was provided by grant R25 OH07611 from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.