UF Department of Psychiatry

Director:
Richard A. Greer , M.D.

Contact Information:
Phone: (352) 392-3681
Fax: (352) 392-9887

Addiction Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine Fellowship

The Department of Psychiatry offers a one-year fellowship in Addiction Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine. 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.