Addiction Medicine Fellowship
Now accepting applications through ERAS.
The Addiction Medicine fellowship at the University of Nebraska Medical Center is housed in the Department of Family Medicine Department. As one of only a handful of fellowships in the upper Midwest, the UNMC Addiction Medicine Fellowship is poised to provide a one-year comprehensive training.
Addiction Medicine is a specialty that involves treating patients across all age ranges, from childhood through care of geriatric patients. Physicians in this specialty work with all spectrums of substance use, from prevention to treatment and recovery. Addiction Medicine physicians also work with all substances- alcohol, tobacco, prescription medications and illicit substances.
Our fellows train in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The inpatient experiences include an Addiction Psychiatry Consult Liaison service at our University Hospital. The fellows also rotate in a full continuum treatment center that provides hospital-based withdrawal management through all levels of care down to outpatient care. Out outpatient rotations involve addiction medicine, addiction psychiatry including a true co-occurring intensive outpatient clinic, office based opioid treatment, and an adolescent outpatient clinic.
About the Program
Upon completion of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship the fellow will be expected to be proficient in the following areas:
- Comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with substance-related health problems and SUDs along a continuum of care, including inpatient/residential, outpatient treatments, early intervention, harm reduction, and prevention.
- Identification and treatment of common co-occurring conditions, such as medical, psychiatric, and pain conditions.
- Evidence based pharmacotherapy and psychosocial interventions for SUDs across the age spectrum.
- Screening, brief intervention, and motivational interviewing.
- Work collaboratively with other providers and allied health professionals, including physicians, nurses, social workers, counselors, and pharmacists to care for patients with SUDs and other substance-related disorders.
- Receive exposure to and gain understanding of the comprehensive, integrative, and interdisciplinary approach to pain management.
- Matching patient treatment needs with levels of intervention, including crisis services, hospitalization, and SUD treatment programs.
- Locate, appraise, and assimilate evidence from scientific studies related to their patients’ health problems.
Resources
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Core Faculty
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Core Clinical Rotations
- Behavioral Health Intensive Outpatient Program-Nebraska Medicine Addiction Psychiatry Clinic
- Outpatient Co-Occurring Clinic-Nebraska Medicine Addiction Psychiatry Clinic
- Outpatient Medication Assisted Treatment-Opioid Treatment Program-Nebraska Medicine Addiction Psychiatry Clinic and BAART OTP
- Nebraska Medicine Adolescent Treatment
- Nebraska Medicine Pain Management Program
- Addiction Consult-Liaison Service-Nebraska Medicine Inpatient and ED
- Residential Treatment-Nebraska Western Iowa VA Hospital
- Outpatient Co-Occurring Clinic
- Other possible sites include One World Community Health Center, Charles Drew Health Center and Nebraska Medicine Family Medicine Clinic
The fellow will have the opportunity to be involved in proposed or designed electives
- Pediatric and Adolescent Recovery Service
- Addiction Consult-Liaison Service
- Outpatient Addiction Services involving IOP and OP Treatment
- Psychotherapy for Addiction Medicine
- Research or Academic Project
