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Addiction medicine fellowship highlights training expansion, calls for continued state support
Summary
University of Minnesota and Hennepin Healthcare faculty described the Addiction Medicine Fellowship to the House committee, detailing a 12‑month subspecialty program that trains physicians to treat substance use disorders, the program’s recent expansion supported by a $540,000 biennial appropriation, and graduates’ placements across Minnesota.
Dr. Sheila Specker, program director for the University of Minnesota Addiction Medicine Fellowship, and colleagues described the fellowship’s clinical curriculum, sites and recent growth to the House Higher Education Finance and Policy Committee.
Specker told the committee the fellowship — a 12‑month clinical program open to physicians from multiple specialties — was accredited by the ACGME in 2018 and traditionally had trained one to three fellows per year. Legislative funding over the past biennium allowed the program to expand so it could support multiple stipends and train four fellows in recent years. Committee staff identified the appropriation as $270,000 in one year and $270,000 in the other (total $540,000 for the…
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