We expect a high level of academic excellence from our residents, as evidenced by in-depth reading of core textbooks, the ability to assess relevant psychiatric literature, and active participation in seminars and clinical/academic conferences. Didactic time for residents is protected, with patient care covered by attending faculty.
Addiction Medicine Fellowship Didactics 2025-2026
Didactics Education Training Topics
Courses Scheduled:
- Addiction Across the Lifespan 1: The Impact of Substance Use on the Developing Adolescent Brain
- Addiction Across the Lifespan 2: Geriatric Populations
- Addiction Medicine's Opportunity to Reduce Disparities in Substance Use Services in Legal System Settings among BIPOC and Minority Groups
- Alcohol: Board Review
- Anabolic-Androgenic Steroids
- Behavioral Addictions: Beyond Gambling
- Cannabis Use Disorder, Cannabis-Related Disorders, and Board Review
- Cocaine, Methamphetamine, and Other Stimulants: Board Review
- Co-Occurring Pain Disorders in Addiction Medicine
- Co-Occurring Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders
- Critical Assessment of Research in Addiction
- Drug Courts
- Epidemiology of Substance Use Disorders; Hour 2: Nitazenes and Medetomidine
- Gambling Disorder: Screening, Diagnosis, and Management
- Hallucinogen Use Disorders, and Psychedelics for the Treatment of Substance Use Disorders
- History of Addiction Treatment
- Hospice, Palliative Care, and Addiction Medicine: Common Ground
- Impairment in Health Professionals
- Jails, Prisons, Detention Centers, and Substance
- Medical Approaches to Care of Patients with SUD
- Motivational Interviewing and Other Therapeutic Modalities for Addiction
- Neurobiology of Addiction
- Neurodiversity and Addiction
- Novel Psychoactive Substances
- Opioid Use Disorder: Board Review
- Perioperative Care of Patients with Opioid Use Disorder
- Pregnancy and Women's SUD: Focus on OUD Treatment Strategies
- Professionalism in Addiction: Ethics, Legal Issues, and Advocacy
- Screening and Brief Intervention for Substance Use
- Sedatives-Hypnotics: Board Review
- Social Determinants of Health: Addiction and SUD related
- Stigma and Discrimination in Addiction
- Tapering Strategies
- Toxicology Testing in Addiction
- Understanding Alcoholics Anonymous (AA): An Overview and Selected AA Literature
- Vaping and Tobacco Use: Background, Epidemiology, Regulatory Issues, Safety
- Working Together to Reduce Harm and Improve Safety for People Who Use Substances