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Program Description
The one-year Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester
provides psychiatric physicians with advanced training in comprehensive
addictions treatment, including screening, diagnosis, behavioral
therapies, pharmacotherapies, systems management, treatment planning
and consultation.
Specifically, the program enables you to:
- Master the pharmacology and neuropharmacology
of all the major substances of dependence, including alcohol,
amphetamines, stimulants, hallucinogens, benzodiazepines, sedative
hypnotics and nicotine. You will acquire knowledge of signs and
symptoms of use and dependence, withdrawal and overdose, as well
as brain reward systems that sub-serve addictive processes.
- Understand and be able to recognize the social,
psychological, medical and psychiatric problems that frequently
occur with psychoactive substance use, including problems in family
systems, problems of the pregnant substance user and problems
related to HIV infection.
- Gain knowledge in the epidemiology of, prevention
of, and genetic and congenital aspects of substance use disorders.
- Develop awareness of economic and cost effectiveness
issues in providing health care services to patients with substance
use disorders.
- Understand the theoretical underpinnings of
the various psychotherapeutic modalities used in treatment of
psychoactive substance dependence.
Fellows receive ongoing supervision and participate in the weekly
addiction evidence-based journal club as well as a case-based weekly
lecture series. You will have close contact with the clinical psychiatry
and psychology services.
Certification
When you successfully complete the Addiction Psychiatry
Fellowship Program, you will be eligible to take the American Board
of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN) subspecialty examination in addiction
psychiatry.
Program History
The Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship at Mayo Clinic in Rochester
was established in 1999. Since that time, approximately five fellows
have completed their training in this program. Going forward, it
is anticipated, that one fellow will complete this program annually.
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