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The MetroHealth Addiction Medicine program provides comprehensive training in a variety of inpatient and outpatient settings. Fellows will experience:

  • Inpatient training with time spent in a dual-diagnosis unit and substance use disorder rehabilitation units.
  • The inpatient consultation service will assist primary teams in the management of complex withdrawal and addiction.
  • Outpatient longitudinal clinics focused on office-based opioid treatment (OBOT), treatment of alcohol use disorders, and comorbid medical and psychiatric disorders.
  • A corrections medicine rotation focused on safe detoxification and the use of medication-assisted treatment in a criminal justice setting.
  • Outpatient pain management clinic opportunity as an elective
  • Outpatient Mother and Child Dependency under the guidance of Obstetrics and Family Medicine
  • Elective experience with the Cleveland methadone clinic or other electives tailored to the interests of the fellow.
  • Didactic education in conjunction with the Department of Psychiatry at an urban teaching hospital and city-wide addiction medicine grand rounds.