This two-year program focuses on "primary care" aspects of addiction medicine, rather than addiction psychiatry as a subspecialty of psychiatry.
Residents learn diagnostic interviewing, motivational interviewing, addiction counseling, recognition and care of common acute withdrawal syndromes and complications, pharmacotherapies of addictive disorders, epidemiology and pathophysiology of addiction, addictive disorders in special populations, secondary interventions, use of screening and diagnostic instruments (including lab tests, questionnaires), inpatient care, consultation-liaison, working within a multidisciplinary team.
Graduates have obtained jobs in addiction units within hospitals, large addiction treatment programs (private non-profit), detoxification centers of metropolitan areas, academic programs in primary care medicine, and publicly funded programs in cities and counties. Several graduates have completed psychiatry training.
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