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Physicians warn cutting addiction‑medicine fellowship funding would end Minnesota’s only specialized training program
Summary
Hennepin Healthcare and University of Minnesota addiction medicine leaders testified the A‑4 eliminations would terminate fellowship positions and reduce the state's capacity to train addiction specialists.
Physician leaders from Hennepin Healthcare and the University of Minnesota told the Senate Higher Education Committee that proposed eliminations in the A‑4 amendment would end specialty addiction‑medicine training that they said is essential to treating substance use disorder across the state.
Doctor Gavin Bart, director of the Division of Addiction Medicine at Hennepin Healthcare, testified the program "is the only 1 in the state of Minnesota," and said eliminating the family medicine and addiction medicine training line…
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