Addiction Medicine Physician Fellowship

The Yale Addiction Medicine Fellowship builds on Yale School of Medicine’s international reputation for advancing research, clinical practice and health professions education on substance use and substance use disorders. The fellowship program is housed within Yale’s Program in Addiction Medicine, which is a multi-disciplinary program whose mission is to expand access to and improve the effectiveness of substance use disorders prevention, treatment, and harm reduction services through its four key pillars of clinical practice, research, education, and policy. The fellowship offers Addiction Medicine clinical experiences in traditional and non-traditional settings, a comprehensive didactic curriculum, mentorship from dedicated faculty, and research and teaching opportunities.

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Addiction medicine fellows will:

• Rotate at several Yale-affiliated training sites and a diverse array of community addiction treatment facilities;
• Participate in robust Addiction Medicine didactic curriculum, in partnership with the Addiction Psychiatry training program at Yale, focusing on the bio-psycho-social assessment and treatment of patients with addiction; and
  
• Work with faculty from the Yale Program in Addiction Medicine who are internationally recognized for clinical care, medical education and health policy work.

• First-year clinical fellows rotate through a variety of multi-disciplinary, team-based inpatient and outpatient training experiences. Training sites include Yale New Haven Hospital, The APT Foundation, VA Connecticut Healthcare System , Cornell Scott Hill Health Center and Fair Haven Community Health Care. Please see below for more details on clinical rotations.
• Fellows will participate in core didactics, teaching activities, and have opportunities to engage in clinical research, medical education, or quality improvement projects. All fellows will complete a scholarly project and deliver a clinical case conference presentation as part of their clinical training year.
• All fellows who complete the one-year training program are eligible to take the Addiction Medicine board certification examination offered through the American Board of Preventive Medicine.

• The second year of the program, structured as a year-long practicum, in research and medical education topics, is optional and dependent on funding availability.
  

Applicants must be board certified or board eligible in their primary specialty. Additionally, applicants must be graduates of, or in the final year of an ACGME accredited clinical residency program. Applications should be submitted through ERAS in July of the year preceding that which you are applying to.

A completed application, personal statement, curriculum vitae and at least three references to the Fellowship program are required. After review by the selection committee, decisions to offer a virtual interview are made. Interviews with current fellows and faculty provide an opportunity to ask questions and learn more about our fellowship program. We participate in the National Addiction Medicine Fellowship Match through the National Residency Match Program (NRMP).

For PAs and APRNs interested in postgraduate addiction training, please visit the APP Addiction Medicine Fellowship (SUSTAIN) program.

Please feel free to contact our program coordinator, Carolyn Dellaquila, if you have any questions.

To graduate trainees who will go on to become leaders in the field of Addiction Medicine.

The program will teach fellows:

• The effective clinical care of individuals with substance use and substance use disorders and their associated co-morbidities
• To critically appraise the Addiction Medicine literature
• To use novel educational strategies to teach students and residents and other learners topics in Addiction Medicine

Weekly courses held in conjunction with the Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship Program cover a range of topics including:

• Core Addiction Psychiatry/Medicine topicsAddiction Systems-Based Practice
  
• Improving the Quality of Medical Education
• Special populations
• Leadership seminar
• Grant writing course
• Core Addiction Psychiatry/Medicine topics
• Quality improvement
• Journal Club
• Clinical Case Conferences
• Research in Progress

• Addiction Medicine Rounds (bi-monthly)
• Addiction Medicine Faculty Fellows Research Forum (monthly)
• American Academy of Academic Addiction Medicine (ACAAM) lectures

• Yale Addiction Medicine Consult Service at YNHH Yale New Haven Hospital (YNHH)
  Provide inpatient Addiction Medicine consult services from assessment to discharge planning with a multidisciplinary team including an attending physician board certified in Addiction Medicine, an advanced practice provider, a counselor, medical students, and residents at both campuses of YNHH.
• The APT Foundation
  Provide longitudinal outpatient care, including assessing and treating patients with opioid, alcohol, and other substance use disorders and their associated co-morbidities with evidence-based approaches, including pharmacotherapy and counseling strategies. Fellows will primarily care for patients in the Central Medical Unita primary care clinic embedded within an addiction treatment program, as well as rotate at other sites within the APT Foundation.
• Addiction Recovery Clinic at Cornell Scott Hill Health Center
  Provide longitudinal outpatient care, including initiating and maintaining pharmacotherapy for patients with opioid, alcohol and other substance use disorders, in a specialty addiction treatment clinic embedded within an academic primary care medical practice while providing oversight to health professions students and primary care internal medicine residents.
• Fair Haven Community Health Care
  Coordinate with primary care providers and school-based health center staff to conduct in-person and telemedicine substance use assessments and follow-up visits, including initiation and maintenance of medications for substance use disorders, with adolescents 12-21 years old.
• Transitions Clinic
  Work with an interprofessional team of providers and learners stemming from the Schools of Law, Public Health, and Nursing, to treat patients with substance use disorders and a history of involvement with the criminal legal system.
• Chronic Pain Management Clinic – Opioid Safety (CPMC-OS)
  Provide intake assessments and follow-up care to patients (typically veterans) who are experiencing issues related to safety, efficacy, or misuse of long-term opioid therapy for chronic pain.

• Several elective opportunities are available through Yale New Haven Health and affiliated community programs. A two-week elective block is built into the first required fellowship year and tailored to the fellow’s interest with the support of fellowship leadership.

Fellows participate in clinical and didactic teaching initiatives across YSM and Yale New Haven Health (YNHHS) at the undergraduate and graduate medical education levels.

All fellows complete a scholarly project in the field of research, education, quality improvement or advocacy supported by one-on-one mentorship from a Program in Addiction Medicine faculty member.

• Fellows receive protected scholarly project time in the first required year of fellowship, but they are the focus of the second optional year of the fellowship and can be tailored to the fellow’s interest.
• Several elective opportunities are available through Yale New Haven Health and affiliated community programs.
• Training in clinical epidemiology and health services research is available for qualified applicants through the Yale Investigative Medicine Program and the National Clinical Scholars Program.
• Training in medical education is available in conjunction with the Yale School of Medicine Teaching and Learning Center.