Addiction Medicine Fellowship Overview
Addiction medicine physicians work in a diversity of settings, including clinical medicine, public health, education, and research; they treat patients across the lifespan who have different degrees of disease severity, from those at risk to those with advanced and complicated disease to those in recovery.
Our Addiction Medicine Fellowship at Rush University Medical Center is a one-year Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education-accredited (ACGME) multispecialty training program that focuses on the provision of care for persons with unhealthy substance use, substance use disorders and other addictive disorders. Fellows obtain experience in the prevention, clinical evaluation, treatment and long-term monitoring of substance related disorders.
Our training emphasizes the management of medical, psychiatric, and social sequelae in the comprehensive care of these patients and is informed by a wide range of evidence-based interventions and spans several sites including:
- Rush University Medical Center-Illinois Medical District
- Community Addiction Medicine at PCC Wellness Center
- Thresholds Health Center
- Family Guidance Center Opioid Treatment Program
Upon successful completion, fellows will be eligible to take the Addiction Medicine Board Certification Examination offered through the American Board of Preventive Medicine. This fellowship is open to all clinical specialties that have primary certification. Why Choose Rush?
Mission Statement
The mission of Rush Addiction Medicine Fellowhsip program is to provide a comprehensive and personalized model of addiction medicine that optimizes and provides the best health care for the individuals and diverse communities we serve through the integration of outstanding patient care, eduation, research, and community partnership.
Program Aims
Consistent with the mission, Rush Addiction Medicine Fellowship program provides care that is:
- Safe - avoiding injuries to patients from the care that is intended to help them.
- Effective - providing services based on scientific knowledge to those who would benefit, and refraining from providing services to those not likely to benefit.
- Patient centered - providing care that is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs, and values and ensuring the patient values guide all clinical decisions.
- Equitable - providing care that does not vary in quality because of personal characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, geographic location, and socioeconomic status.