Nursing Fellowship in Addiction Medicine

Family medicine obstetrics fellowship graduates: training and post-fellowship experience.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Family medicine obstetrics and maternal-child health fellowships offer family physicians additional training in pregnancy care. Our objectives were to assess the content of these fellowship programs, the clinical practices of fellowship graduates, and factors associated with inclusion of cesarean delivery in practice after fellowship training. METHODS A survey was se...

Milestones in Fellowship Training in Headache Medicine.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandated a transition from competency-based assessment of resident progress to a “milestone-based” approach in 2012. After July 2014, neurology residency programs were required to follow milestones corresponding to all goals of training in the 6 areas of competency, with specific anchoring language for assessing progress. This eva...

Update in addiction medicine.

In 1978, Regier and colleagues (1) coined the term “de facto mental health and substance abuse system” after finding that most patients with mental illness and substance abuse are treated in the general medical sector, not in psychiatric settings. Despite the availability of this system, many patients with mental disorders and substance abuse do not receive a diagnosis, and many do not receive ...

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