Eight New Addiction Medicine Fellowship Programs Accredited
Eight new addiction medicine fellowship programs have been
accredited by the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM)
Foundation, bringing the total number of programs to 18, Newswise reports.
Doctors who complete one of these fellowships are eligible to sit for
the ABAM exam to become certified in addiction medicine. There are 47
addiction medicine fellowship slots available, although some slots are
not yet funded, according to the article.
“These new fellowships will help insure that trained addiction
medicine physicians join other addiction professionals in the
interdisciplinary care of patients with addictive disorders,” said
Jeffrey H. Samet, MD, MA, MPH, President of ABAM
and the ABAM Foundation Board of Directors. “This clinical training,
coupled with passage of our rigorous examination, will help to provide
evidence-based addiction treatment to those who need it.”
The new fellowship programs are located at the Betty Ford
Center/Eisenhower Medical Center, Rancho Mirage, California; Centre for
Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; Hartford
Hospital, Hartford, Connecticut; St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Ann Arbor,
Ypsilanti, Michigan; St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada; St. Vincent Charity Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio; Stanford
Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, California; and Yale-New Haven Hospital,
New Haven, Connecticut.
“Our workforce projections suggest that, by 2020, we will need 50
addiction medicine fellowship training programs with 200 physician
slots,” said Richard Blondell, MD, Chair of the Foundation’s Training
and Accreditation Committee. “One of the main obstacles to establishing
these programs is funding.”
Demand for addiction treatment will expand as the Affordable Care Act adds millions of new patients to the system. Addiction medicine courses are rarely offered in medical school, the article notes.
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