Host: The Japanese Society of Toxicology
Name : The 50th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Toxicology
Date : June 19, 2023 - June 21, 2023
The department of judicial chemistry has served as a channel to bring the scientific knowledge of the pharmacy faculty back to the society. Judicial chemistry is the integrated science of drug analysis, pharmacokinetics, and toxicology and is now used almost exclusively by forensic toxicology. Meanwhile, the six-year program at the pharmacy school has resulted in considerably fewer lectures on judicial chemistry. The Ming Plans to Promote the Cause of Death Investigation calls for the enhancement of content related to the cause of death in pharmacy education. Therefore, it is necessary to steadily reflect on the "forensic toxicology approach in determining the cause of death" presented in the recently revised Model Core Curriculum 2022 in each university's curriculum. Forensic toxicology should be understood in continuity with clinical toxicology as they inevitably go through a state of drug intoxication as a preliminary step to drug intoxicated death. Furthermore, by linking with toxicology, which primarily covers the mechanism of toxicity, it is possible to consider the relationship between tissue toxicity and individual death. Therefore, I believe that the establishment of an educational system in which students learn clinical toxicology, forensic toxicology, and mechanism-based toxicology in an integrated manner will lead to the development of personnel who can investigate the cause of death from a clinical perspective. In this symposium, I would like to present my personal views on education and research relating to cause-of-death studies from this perspective.
