Teaching Addiction Medicine to Medical Students and Residents
Opioid-related overdose deaths peaked last year coinciding with the pandemic. Addiction medicine specialist, Tiffany Lu, M.D., M.S., explains why many people have a hard time accessing evidence-based addiction treatment – and why there is a shortage of physicians who are trained in this specialty.
Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Health System have received a $447,000 grant to fill this gap. The grant, from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), will fund a new curriculum to train medical students at Einstein and internal medicine residents at Montefiore to diagnose and care for people with opioid use disorder. This includes guidance about medications for addiction treatment, particularly buprenorphine.
Dr. Lu is an assistant professor of medicine at Einstein and the director of the Montefiore Buprenorphine Treatment Network. The grant, titled “Developing and Implementing a Longitudinal Addiction Medicine Curriculum at Albert Einstein College of Medicine,” was awarded by SAMHSA, part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (H79TI084130).
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