Program Details
The program includes a research requirement, as well as numerous opportunities to be involved in the field of addiction. Patients seen in the program cover a range of socio-economic diversity. There is also adequate opportunity to teach psychiatric residents and Dartmouth medical students.
The program also treats patients with addiction disorders through the Intensive Outpatient Program, the Buprenorphine Clinic, and substance abuse patients in the inpatient unit.
Further details
- Half of the fellow's time is spent at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center's outpatient psychiatric clinic, where the trainee gains clinical experience in the treatment of primary substance abuse patients and their families.
- Substance abuse consultation experience is gained on medical, surgical, and OB/GYN services in the emergency department and intensive care units of the hospital with patients who have acute and chronic drug and/or alcohol abuse and dependency, including acute intoxication and overdose.
- Fellows take call at DHMC, as do other fellows in the department as back-up on-call physicians for junior residents. This experience includes assessing patients who are intoxicated and require admission, detoxification, or referral in the emergency department.
- One half-day a week of the DHMC experience is spent off-site at the VA-operated Quitting Time program, an intensive outpatient evening program where the resident participates as a group co-leader and assists in medical management of the patients.
- In addition, one half-day per week is spent at Dick Hall's House (the student health center of Dartmouth College), working on the mental health team evaluating and treating substance-abusing students and participating in substance-abuse education activities on the Dartmouth campus.
