Addiction Medicine Fellowship

Trinity Health Grand Rapids offers a 1-year ACGME accredited Addiction Medicine fellowship. As an established medical system, integrated in our community, we provide our fellows with a comprehensive experience in addiction medicine. In addition to general addiction experiences, which include working in our local methadone clinics/opioid treatment programs, outpatient, office-based addiction treatment, and others, our program uniquely integrates with our hospice and palliative care fellowship and offers learners rotations that explore co-occurring psychiatric illnesses through both inpatient and consultative psychiatry.
Finally, our fellows will work within the broader community to understand the larger substance abuse and behavioral health treatment programs within the community. This includes working with individuals with severe, persistent mental illness, participating in intensive outpatient programming, collaborating with family engagement teams, and engaging in other community-based psychosocial treatments.
Additionally, fellows will explore the criminal-legal system, rotating within the jail, and court systems with the county prosecutor, and corrections officers to understand the various ways individuals with substance use disorders interact with the legal system.
The clinical hub and longitudinal clinic for our fellows own patient panel is the Trinity Health Grand Rapids Recovery Medicine Clinic located in the Heartside Region of Grand Rapids.
Mission Statement & Program Aims
The mission of our Addiction Medicine Fellowship is to train physician clinicians, educators, and leaders in caring for patients, families, and communities impacted by substance use. In achieving that mission, we will strive to create a collaborative learning environment for fellows to explore the multi-faceted treatment landscape in addiction medicine. We will learn from and train our fellows to become leaders in addiction medicine, recognized for their collaborative efforts within healthcare systems and the communities they serve.
In alignment with our Sponsoring Institution’s values, our fellows will maintain a person-centered focus, while developing skills and sensitivity in the areas of reverence for life, commitment to those experiencing poverty, justice, stewardship of resources, safety, and integrity.
Consistent with our stated mission, our goals include:
- Offering fellows diverse clinical experiential training environments that expose them to various patient groups, care settings, clinicians, and treatment modalities;
- Developing leadership skills through training, presentations, and fellowship projects/experiences that will support their growth as institutional and community leaders;
- Focus on training across the addiction continuum of care to support fellows in consideration of the psycho-social impacts of healthcare equity, social determinants of health, and socioeconomic impacts of substance use; and
- Support learners through didactic experiences that will equip them with a framework of clinical knowledge for patient care and help them successfully pass the addiction medicine board exam offered by the ABPM.