Program Overview

Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship

The Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship is a program offered by the Department of Psychiatry at UMass Chan Medical School.

Program Highlights

The program offers a comprehensive education and training experience in addiction psychiatry, with a focus on the following areas:

• Rotations
• Didactics
• Elective Experiences
• Sample Schedules
• Supervision and Evaluations
• Women's Mental Health

Rotations

The program includes the following core rotations:

Core Rotations

• ACTS Clinic: A continuity clinic for psychopharmacology and short-term psychotherapy for substance use disorders and co-occurring disorders.
• Addiction Consult Service: A consultation team in a 750-bed hospital providing addiction expertise for medical and surgical patients.
• Adcare: A Level 4 acute detoxification facility with 114 beds for detox and rehab units.
• Motivating Youth Recovery: A unit treating adolescents between the ages of 13 and 18 who require detoxification and clinical stabilization from substance use.
• Spectrum Health Systems: A facility where fellows evaluate patients seeking treatment for opioid use disorder and observe methadone induction and titration.
• Bedford VA: A facility where fellows practice addiction psychiatry in various levels of care, including intensive inpatient services and intensive outpatient services.
• Teleaddiction Consultation: A telepsychiatry service providing addiction consultation to other treatment facilities within the UMass system.

Additional Rotations

The program also includes the following additional rotations:

Additional Rotations

• Substance Use Disorders in the Pregnant and Postpartum Patient: A rotation in the Karen W Green Clinic for Pregnancy and Recovery, focusing on medication considerations in pregnancy and legal and ethical issues.
• Forensic Addiction Psychiatry: A rotation observing the legal process of involuntary hospitalization for substance use disorders and attending drug court proceedings.
• Medical Toxicology: A rotation attending rounds for the medical toxicology service covering the emergency department and in-patient units.
• Liver Clinic: A rotation providing addiction consultation for patients with alcoholic liver disease.
• Pain Clinic: A rotation observing a pain specialist in the evaluation and management of patients with chronic pain.
• Novel Treatments for Mood Disorders: A rotation in an esketamine clinic, evaluating new patients and monitoring patients in active treatment.