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ADDICTION FELLOWSHIPS
Addiction Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine Fellowships
The University of Florida College of Medicine began offering a
Fellowship in Addiction Medicine in 1992. American Society of Addiction
Medicine (ASAM) and American Academy of Addiction Psychiatry (AAP)
Fellows participate in a wide range of academic activities including
clinical and basic science research, medical education, and patient care
clinics. Inpatient evaluation, inpatient and residential treatment,
consults, forensics, laboratory testing, drug education and prevention
are available and provide the basis for the applicant to sit for the
ASAM or Psychiatry Addiction Boards , Pain and Medical Review Officer
certifications. Fellows have come from psychiatry residencies as well
as applicants with previous careers in anesthesiology, neurosurgery,
family medicine, medicine, surgery and pediatrics.
Fellows have the opportunity to choose from an impressive list of
available public sector addiction training experiences in the model drug
court, prenatal prevention, child and adolescent treatment programs,
dual disorders, health information, multidisciplinary overeating and
eating disorders programs, state and local tobacco initiatives, as well
as the more traditional veterans, methadone, detoxification units,
relapse prevention methodologies, and day programs. Graduates have
continued in research careers, taken prestigious academic positions and
Medical Director posts in the community.
For more information, please contact us at:
Division of Addiction Medicine
PO Box 100183
Gainesville, FL 32610
Email: addiction@psychiatry.ufl.edu
Phone: 352-392-6681
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