PROGRAM OVERVIEW

Time available: One 12-month position

Learning experiences available:

• Medical Detox (inpatient)
• Rapid Access Addiction Medicine Clinic (outpatient)
• Hospital Consult Service (inpatient)
• Opioid Agonist Clinic, including Harm Reduction and Safer Supply (outpatient)
• Residential Treatment, including Concurrent Mood/Anxiety/Trauma Disorders (inpatient)
• Street Outreach- Addictions & Primary Care (outpatient)
• Acute Psychiatry, including substance-induced psychosis (inpatient)
• Pain Management (inpatient & outpatient)
• Selective block with relevance for addictions medicine, e.g., infectious disease, public health, psychiatry, psychotherapy, hepatology, perinatal addiction medicine, pediatric/youth addiction medicine
• Scholarship/advocacy/policy block

Mandatory longitudinal primary care experience (one half day a week): A mandatory primary care experience with a primary Family Medicine preceptor is expected during a second protected half-day. This experience will be for 12 months during the PGY3 program. Because an overarching goal of the program is to develop family physicians that have additional expertise in addiction medicine, this continuity experience is mandated to maintain the PGY3 resident’s competency and skills in the other areas of general family medicine during this training year.

Clinical Training Sites: The PGY-3 Addictions Medicine program is based out of McMaster’s Waterloo Regional Campus, in close collaboration with community addictions medicine providers in the Waterloo Region and surrounding areas, including Guelph and Hamilton, working in outpatient contexts (e.g., RAAM and OAT clinics),hospital-based services (e.g., detox, inpatient addictions consult service, acute psychiatry, and pain management center), and inpatient addictions and psychiatric treatment providers (Homewood Health Centre).

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