Curriculum

Our one-year addiction medicine fellowship offers you in-depth clinical experience and a solid didactic education in our dynamic field.

Rotation Schedule

Clinical Rotations

Name of Rotation	Length of Rotation
Continuity Clinic	Yearlong
Hepatitis C Clinic	Yearlong
Community Addiction Services: Harm Reduction, Community Behavioral Health	8 weeks
Inpatient Addiction Medicine: Stabilization, ER, Consults	10 weeks
Inpatient Rehabilitation and Residential Services	6 weeks
Psychiatry Consult/Liaison and Intensive Outpatient Psychiatry	6 weeks
Palliative Care	2 weeks
Pain Management	6 weeks
Criminal Justice	4 weeks
Electives	6 weeks

You’ll spend more than 1,900 hours training in clinical settings, many unopposed.

Your inpatient training takes place at the chemical dependency unit of Erie County Medical Center, a major academic facility and the region’s primary safety-net hospital.

There, you’ll collaborate with medical and counseling specialists in the hospital’s detoxification unit, trauma and psychiatry emergency departments and medical and surgical floors.

As an integral team member, you’ll care for a range of different patient populations, including psychiatrically complex patients with comorbid addictions.

Our outpatient curriculum trains you to manage patients’ pharmacological needs and provide psychosocial care.

You’ll train in a variety of community training sites, including: