The Division of Addiction Medicine offers a 12-month Fellowship graduate program designed to provide specialty training to APRN and PA providers interested in a career in Addiction Medicine. This role has a dual responsibility as a student and also provides care to patients with substance use disorders.

The APP will engage in challenging educational responsibilities in the setting of outpatient, institutional, and inpatient settings.

The curriculum includes didactic and clinical experience under the guidance of experienced clinicians with academic credentials in the Addiction Medicine service. The faculty includes physicians, APRNs, and PAs with a diverse background in Psychiatry, Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, and Emergency Medicine.

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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.