Integrating addiction medicine into graduate medical education in primary care: The time has come (2011)

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Author	’connor, Patrick G. O. Julie Nyquist, G. Mclellan, A. Thomas
Abstract	Substance use disorders create an enormous burden of medical, behavioral, and social problems and pose a major and costly public health challenge. Despite the high prevalence of substance use and its consequences, physicians often do not recognize these condi-tions and, as a result, provide inadequate patient care. At the center of this failure is insufficient training for physicians about substance use disorders. To address this deficit, the Betty Ford Institute convened a meet-ing of experts who developed the following 5 recommendations focused on improving training in substance abuse in primary care residency programs in internal medicine and family medicine: 1) in-tegrating substance abuse competencies into training, 2) assigning substance abuse teaching the same priority as teaching about other chronic diseases, 3) enhancing faculty development, 4) creating addiction medicine divisions or programs in academic medical cen-ters, and 5) making substance abuse screening and management routine care in new models of primary care practice. This enhanced primary care residency training should represent a major step for-ward in improving patient care. Ann Intern Med. 2011;154:56-59. www.annals.org
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Journal	Annals of Internal Medicine
Language	English
Publisher Date	2011-01-01
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Subject Keyword	Addiction Medicine Graduate Medical Education Primary Care Substance Abuse Substance Use Disorder Social Problem Ann Intern Med Academic Medical Cen-ters Management Routine Care Internal Medicine Primary Care Residency Program High Prevalence Inadequate Patient Care Enormous Burden Patient Care Betty Ford Institute Family Medicine Faculty Development Substance Use New Model Addiction Medicine Division Substance Abuse Screening Major Step Costly Public Health Challenge In-tegrating Substance Abuse Competency Primary Care Practice Primary Care Residency Training Chronic Disease
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