Training Sites

The University of Washington Boise Addiction Medicine Program uses a variety of training sites to provide residents with a broad array of patient populations and clinical experiences.

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Overview

Fellows' home base is the Boise VA Medical Center, but they spend a significant portion of their training program learning at Full Circle Health, Raise the Bottom, and St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center.  Fellows also have the opportunity to spend up to one month at University of Washington - Seattle training sites.

Locations

 

The Boise VA Medical Center

Boise VA Medical Center

The Boise VA Medical Center, with 46 medical/surgical beds, serves over 100,000 Veterans in Idaho and the surrounding area. Addiction Medicine fellows have multiple rotations at the Boise VA, including on the hospital floors providing inpatient consultation, in the outpatient setting providing ambulatory withdrawal management, in-person and virtual addiction medicine consultation, and longitudinal addiction medicine care, and at the Residential Substance Abuse Treatment Center (RSAT), an 18-bed domiciliary on the VA campus.  

 

The Boise VA is home base to three University of Washington GME Programs: Internal Medicine, Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine.  The Boise VA has affiliations with multiple educational programs including the University of Washington Medical School as well as training programs in nursing, social work, and psychology.

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Full Circle Health

Full Circle Health is a federally qualified health center and has offered full service medical, behavioral health, and outreach services for families, infants, children, adolescents, teenagers, adults and seniors in the Boise area since 1975.  Full Circle Health is home to multiple training programs, including the Family Medicine Residency of Idaho (FMRI) - Boise (36 residents), FMRI - Caldwell (12 residents), FMRI - Magic Valley (6 residents), FMRI - Nampa (18 residents), and the Pediatrics Residency of Idaho (12 residents).  Full Circle Health also hosts a one year pharmacy residency.

St. Luke's Regional Medical Center

St. Luke's Regional Medical Center

St. Luke's Regional Medical Center (SLMRC) is a 544-bed hospital with centers of excellence in cancer, heart, and women's and children's care. Fellows work with addiction medicine psychiatrists to provide inpatient addiction medicine consultation on the adult and pediatric hospital floors.  Fellows also care for pregnant persons with substance use disorders in the hospital's Maternal Fetal Medicine clinic.

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Raise the Bottom Opioid Treatment Center

Raise the Bottom is an opioid treatment program with locations in Boise, Nampa and Pocatello, treating hundreds of patients with opioid use disorder.  In addition to methadone, Raise the Bottom providers also prescribe buprenorphine and treat a variety of substance use disorders and comorbid psychiatric conditions.