Deadline: February 28, 2025
Award Amount: $400,000 to $800,000 per year up to 5 years
Match: None
Eligible Entities: Tribal governments and organizations, Higher Education Entities, Nonprofits, Small Businesses
Description: The purpose of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship (AMF) program is to expand the number of fellows at accredited AMF and Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship (APF) programs trained as addiction medicine specialists who practice in medically underserved, community-based settings that integrate primary care with mental health disorder and substance use disorder (SUD) prevention and treatment services. The fellowship must include training in prevention and treatment services in medically underserved, community-based settings, including in rural areas, that do not have access or have limited access to SUD treatment. The program includes training for both addiction medicine and/or addiction psychiatry fellows. Its goal is to increase the number of physicians who are board-certified specialists in addiction medicine or addiction psychiatry who will serve in medically underserved community-based settings, including in rural areas, once trained. The program supports training to:
• Increase the number of fellows trained to practice addiction medicine and addiction psychiatry in rural and other medically underserved community-based settings.
• Establish partnerships with clinical rotation sites in rural or other underserved areas, that focus on the integration of primary care with mental health and SUD prevention and treatment services.
• Increase fellows’ knowledge and ability to assist their patients with referrals to navigate the legal and social systems related to patients’ clinical or care needs.
• Increase awareness of the specialty and reduce provider stigma to increase the number of physicians interested in pursuing careers in addiction medicine and addiction psychiatry through the provision of clinical rotations that expose medical residents to practice in these specialties and through education and consultation.