The Yale Program in Addiction Medicine provides clinical training in addiction medicine to medical students and advanced practice nursing and physician associate students, as well as residents in Internal Medicine (Traditional, Primary Care, and Medicine-Pediatrics), Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Emergency Medicine.
Fellowship training is provided through a two-year American Board of Addiction Medicine-accredited Fellowship in Addiction Medicine, and junior faculty support and training are provided through a NIDA-funded K12 career development award, with a focus on Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, Family Medicine, Emergency Medicine, and Obstetrics & Gynecology. Addiction Medicine Grand Rounds are held bimonthly, are open to the public, and cover a broad range of topics.
The Yale Addiction Medicine (AM) Grand Rounds are held virtually on the second and fourth Tuesday of each month. Presentations are open to the public and cover a range of topics relevant to Addiction Medicine including research, education, training, and clinical care. As the field of Addiction Medicine continues to evolve, with Yale at the forefront, AM Grand Rounds provide a venue for discussion and interaction among students, residents, fellows, as well as junior and senior faculty at Yale and beyond.
Addiction Medicine Grand Rounds are CME accredited. Each session is assigned 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit.
The Yale-UJ Joint Training Program in Addiction Medicine, with generous support from the US Embassy in Amman, aims to bilaterally share expertise and provide the opportunity of exchange between academic institutions for faculty, students, and other key stakeholders on the identification and treatment of substance use disorder while paying specific attention to cultural competency and interprofessional training.
The Yale-Drug use, Addiction, and HIV Research Scholars program is a K12 sponsored fellowship that provides a comprehensive three-year, post-doctorate, interdisciplinary, mentored career development program. The aim of the program is to prepare investigators for careers focusing on improving medical outcomes for patients with, and at risk for drug abuse, addiction, and HIV, by integrating prevention and treatment in general medical settings including emergency departments and primary care, and HIV, adolescent, and women’s health clinics.
The NIDA-funded Research in Addiction Medicine Scholars (RAMS) Program aims to develop skills in addiction medicine research among physicians from ABAM Foundation-accredited addiction medicine fellowship programs or addiction psychiatry fellowship programs across the United States. The RAMS Program is intended to make important contributions to the development of the next generation of addiction physician researchers in order to provide better care for patients with and at risk for addictive diseases.
The mission of the Yale Internal Medicine HIV Training Track is to provide necessary knowledge, attitude, and skills to future physicians who have a special interest in HIV medicine and through this enhance the capacity of qualified physician-leaders to meaningfully care for people living with HIV/AIDS. The HIV Training Track is a three-year track and is available to residents in the Yale Primary Care Internal Medicine Residency Program.