Addiction Medicine Fellowship

Now accepting applications through ERAS.

The Addiction Medicine fellowship at the University of Nebraska Medical Center is housed in the Department of Family Medicine with faculty from the Department of Psychiatry. As one of only a handful of fellowships in the upper Midwest, the UNMC Addiction Medicine Fellowship is poised to provide a one-year comprehensive training.

Addiction Medicine is a specialty that involves treating patients across all age ranges and with all spectrums of substance use, from prevention to treatment and recovery. In addition to substance use disorders, addiction medicine physicians also treat gambling disorder and internet gaming disorder.

Our fellows train in both inpatient and outpatient settings. The inpatient experiences include an Addiction Psychiatry Consult Liaison service at our University Hospital. The fellows also rotate in a full continuum treatment center that provides hospital-based withdrawal management through all levels of care down to outpatient care. Our outpatient rotations involve addiction medicine clinics, addiction psychiatry clinics including a true co-occurring intensive outpatient program, an opioid treatment program, and an adolescent outpatient clinic.

About the Program

Upon completion of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship the fellow will be expected to be proficient in the following areas:

Comprehensive assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of patients with substance-related health problems and SUDs along a continuum of care, including inpatient/residential, outpatient treatments, early intervention, harm reduction, and prevention.
Identification and treatment of common co-occurring conditions, including medical, psychiatric, and pain conditions.
Evidence based pharmacotherapy and psychotherapeutic interventions for SUDs across the age spectrum.
Motivational interviewing training involving didactics and year-long skills training.
Work collaboratively with other providers and allied health professionals, including physicians, nurses, social workers, counselors, peer support, and pharmacists to care for patients with SUDs and other substance-related disorders.
Receive exposure to and gain understanding of the comprehensive, integrative, and interdisciplinary approach to pain management.
Match patient treatment needs with levels of intervention, including crisis services, hospitalization, and SUD treatment programs.
Locate, appraise, and assimilate evidence from scientific studies related to their patients’ diagnoses.

Fill out online application via ERAS
We also have intermittent off-cycle opportunities outside of the National Residency Match Program. If you are interested please contact Dr. Ken Zoucha, program director at kenneth.zoucha@unmc.edu or Lorelei Mize, program coordinator at lmize@unmc.edu.

The Core Curriculum includes clinical rotations in an IOP and outpatient treatment program, an opioid treatment program, a residential treatment program that houses a full continuum care, and an addiction medicine consultation-liaison service.

Our didactics includes participation in a national didactic program through the American College of Academic Addiction Medicine (ACAAM) offering the ability to learn from experts around the country. Locally, our faculty offer motivational interviewing training, harm reduction training, treatment of patients with pain and substance use disorders, among other educational offerings. Our fellows attend the annual ASAM (American Society of Addiction Medicine) conference financed through the fellowship.

UNMC Graduate Medical Education

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Core Faculty

Meet our core faculty.

ACAAM

Check out the American College of Academic Addiction Medicine.

House Officer Resources

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Outpatient Treatment

Co-occurring Intensive Outpatient Program-Nebraska Medicine Addiction Psychiatry Clinic
Outpatient Co-Occurring Clinic-Nebraska Medicine Addiction Psychiatry Clinic
Outpatient medication treatment for opioid, alcohol and nicotine use disorders
Bonsai Opioid Treatment Program for methadone treatment for opioid use disorder
Nebraska Medicine Adolescent Treatment Clinic
Nebraska Medicine Pain Management Program

Inpatient Treatment

Addiction Consult-Liaison Service-Nebraska Medicine Hospital
Residential Treatment - Bryan LGH Independence Center - Lincoln, Nebraska

Longitudinal Continuity Clinic

Outpatient Addiction Medicine Clinic at Nebraska Medicine
Outpatient Co-occurring Disorder Clinic at One World Community Health Center - An FQHC - Faculty member is an addiction psychiatrist

Electives

The fellow will have the opportunity to be involved in proposed or designed electives

Pediatric and Adolescent Recovery Service
Addiction Consult-Liaison Service
Outpatient Addiction Services involving IOP and OP Treatment
Psychotherapy for Addiction Medicine
Research or Academic Project

Didactics

Our fellows will participate in the national American College of Academic Addiction Medicine weekly conference that is presented by experts across the country at other addiction medicine fellowships with expertise in the topics they are presenting.

Our program also has added on didactics by faculty at Nebraska Medicine and One World, MI skills training with an expert psychologist providing that training, case conferences and journal club.

The University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, Nebraska provides first-class medical education to students from all over the world. We have the world's largest simulation center and a wellness lounge just for our House Officers.

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Kenneth Zoucha, MD

Fellowship Director

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Phone: 402-552-6002