CORE CLINICAL EXPERIENCES
- Inpatient Addiction Medicine Consults
- Outpatient Addiction Medicine Consults
- Virtual Addiction Medicine Consults
- Ambulatory Withdrawal Management
- Opioid Treatment Program OUD Management
- Comprehensive Pain Management
- Residential Substance Use Treatment (ASAM Level 3.5)
ADDITIONAL/ELECTIVE CLINICAL EXPERIENCES
- Advocacy Elective
- Criminal Justice Elective: Treatment Courts/Veteran’s Justice Outreach
- Pain Procedures Clinic
- Research Elective
- Tobacco Cessation Clinic
- UW Seattle Electives: Harborview Medical Center, VA Puget Sound Medical Center, UW Medical Center
Didactic Learning
The didactic program includes formal lectures and case discussions with core faculty and guest lecturers from across the country. It involves close collaboration with the University of Washington Addiction Medicine program as well, allowing for networking and collaboration across institutions. Didactics focus on the principles of addiction medicine, psychiatric diagnoses and comorbidities, treatment of intoxication and withdrawal syndromes, and the treatment of comorbid medical illness. Fellows work alongside and teach interprofessional trainees, including medical students, internal medicine residents, psychiatry residents, nurse practitioner residents, and pharmacy residents.
Scholarly Activity
Fellows are required to develop and execute a scholarly project in collaboration with an Addiction Medicine faculty mentor. The project may include quality improvement work, research in substance use disorder education, or original research on a topic in Addiction Medicine. Fellows have the opportunity to work as part of an interprofessional team on a formal quality improvement project at the Boise VA.
Conferences
Fellows participate in local, state, and/or national associations and attend at least one conference for educational and career development. The fellowship typically attends the American Society of Addiction Medicine annual conference as a group each Spring.
