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 Department. 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, from childhood through care of geriatric patients. Physicians in this specialty work with all spectrums of substance use, from prevention to treatment and recovery. Addiction Medicine physicians also work with all substances- alcohol, tobacco, prescription medications and illicit substances.

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. Out outpatient rotations involve addiction medicine, addiction psychiatry including a true co-occurring intensive outpatient clinic, office based opioid treatment, 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, such as medical, psychiatric, and pain conditions.
Evidence based pharmacotherapy and psychosocial interventions for SUDs across the age spectrum.
Screening, brief intervention, and motivational interviewing.
Work collaboratively with other providers and allied health professionals, including physicians, nurses, social workers, counselors, 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.
Matching 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’ health problems.

Completion of an ACGME-approved residency program in the following:
- Anesthesiology, Emergency Medicine, Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Preventive Medicine or Psychiatry
Board-certified or Board-eligible in primary discipline
Eligible for a Nebraska Medical License, DEA certification and DATA 2000 waiver

Fill out online application via ERAS
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A one to two page letter outlining their interest in addiction medicine
Two letters of reference, preferably one from an addiction medicine specialist
Letter from residency program director
Dean’s letter from medical school
Release of information forms, signed by the applicant, allowing the ADM Program Director to communicate with the applicant’s current or past program director, and with current or past employers (if applicable)

Once we have received your application materials, we will make the decision about scheduling an interview and will contact you.

The Core Curriculum includes clinical rotations in longitudinal continuity clinics, an IOP and outpatient treatment program, medication assisted treatment program that includes an opioid treatment program, a residential treatment program at the Nebraska Western Iowa VA, and an addiction medicine consultation-liaison service.

UNMC Graduate Medical Education

Resources and information for GME programs.

Core Faculty

Meet our core faculty.

Outpatient Treatment

Behavioral Health Intensive Outpatient Program-Nebraska Medicine Addiction Psychiatry Clinic
Outpatient Co-Occurring Clinic-Nebraska Medicine Addiction Psychiatry Clinic
Outpatient Medication Assisted Treatment-Opioid Treatment Program-Nebraska Medicine Addiction Psychiatry Clinic and BAART OTP
Nebraska Medicine Adolescent Treatment
Nebraska Medicine Pain Management Program

Inpatient Treatment

Addiction Consult-Liaison Service-Nebraska Medicine Inpatient and ED
Residential Treatment-Nebraska Western Iowa VA Hospital

Longitudinal Continuity Clinic

Outpatient Co-Occurring Clinic
Other possible sites include One World Community Health Center, Charles Drew Health Center and Nebraska Medicine Family Medicine Clinic

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

There will be a weekly program of lectures, Journal Club, Grand Rounds, and Case Conferences. Fellows will also be required to attend at least one National Conference focused on addiction medicine such as ASAM, AAAP, or CSAM.

Kenneth Zoucha, MD

Fellowship Director

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Phone: 402-552-6002

Addiction Medicine Fellowship

About the Program

Resources

UNMC Graduate Medical Education

Core Faculty

Core Clinical Rotations

Kenneth Zoucha, MD