Tell Me More: Establishing an Addiction Medicine Curriculum for Trainees
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Tell Me More: Establishing an Addiction Medicine Curriculum for Trainees
Recorded: Thursday, April 13, 2023 to Sunday, April 16, 2023
On-Demand Session
Overview
This 75-minute on-demand session from the ASAM 54th Annual Conference addresses the development of an addiction medicine curriculum for trainees.
Given new ACGME requirements of educating learners on substance use, this workshop will focus on the development of an addiction medicine curriculum for trainees. Participants will learn what elements and personnel are necessary to build a robust curriculum that is inclusive of stigma awareness, patient-centered documentation and language, and harm reduction. By the end of this workshop, participants will have the knowledge to build or improve upon their own playbook on how to teach trainees about addiction medicine.
The target audience for this intermediate level session includes physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, other clinicians, researchers, residents, fellows, students, and counselors.
This session addresses the following ACGME Competencies: Patient Care and Procedural Skills, Interpersonal and Communication Skills
This session addresses the following IOM Competencies:Provide patient-centered care, Employ evidence-based practice
Learning Objectives
Upon completion, learners will be able to:
- To demonstrate increased awareness and knowledge of available resources that exist locally and online for training materials for an addiction medicine curriculum.
- To list the essential components of an addiction medicine curriculum for a medical learner, including patient-center documentation and standards of care in patients with a substance use disorder.
- To recognize and characterize non-biased, nonjudgmental communication skills a medical learner should portray and demonstrate the means by which to teach those skills to a medical learner.
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| Rate Description | Rate |
| ASAM Member | $29 |
| Non-Member | $39 |
| Associate Member | $19 |
| Resident Member* | $19 |
| Student Member* | $19 |
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Registration Deadline: 05/15/2026
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Elizabeth Cuevas, MD
Division Chief for Center for Inclusion Health
Allegheny Health Network
Dr. Cuevas received her Bachelor of Science degree, summa cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame in 1997 and her M.D. degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 2001. She completed her internship and residency training in Internal Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital. After completing residency in 2004, she took a dual appointment, worked in an outpatient academic primary care academic practice at the Massachusetts General Hospital and in various clinics in Boston with the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program (BHCHP) where she served as the medical director for several homeless clinical sites in Boston.
Dr. Cuevas left Boston in 2011 and moved to Pittsburgh, joining the staff at Allegheny General Hospital. Her initial clinical time was devoted to the education of IM Residents at AGH, as a preceptor in outpatient clinic as well as an attending on the inpatient teaching teams. She worked as an Associate Program Director for the IM Residency Program from 2012 through 2018 before stepping down to the position of Core Faculty member with the residency program. Dr. Cuevas was one of the founders of the Center for Inclusion Health (CIH) at AHN in 2014 and assumed the role of Director of Primary Care Transformation for the IM Residency Clinics in 2018 and then Division Chief of Academic Internal Medicine in 2019. For CIH, she worked on projects including the implementation of an inpatient CIH rounding team, the medical respite program, a SDOH screening program, the behavioral health integration into primary care, and a CIH specialized track for medical residents interested in the work of CIH. In addition to her clinical and administrative duties, Dr. Cuevas played an active role in revitalizing an AHN system-wide Women in Medicine program to address issues of gender equity and wellness.
Divya Venkat
MD
Divya Venkat, MD, Faculty, Center for Inclusion Health, Allegheny Health Network, Pittsburgh, PA
Dr. Venkat is a current faculty physician with the Internal Medicine Residency Program and Center for Inclusion Health at Allegheny Health Network. She completed her medical school at the George Washington University School of Medicine and her subsequent training in the Inclusion Health Track at Allegheny Health Network followed by her chief residency. She is currently the co-director of the Inclusion Health track and has a particular focus in substance use disorders, incarceration, education, and health care delivery.
Elizabeth Desmarais, DO
Instructor, Department of Hospital Medicine
University of Colorado Hospital
Elizabeth Desmarais, D.O., is board-certified in internal medicine. She is currently a hospitalist at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. She graduated from the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, then went on to complete her residency training at Allegheny Health Network in Pittsburgh, PA. During her residency she received additional training in the Inclusion Health and Medical Education tracks. Her work has focused on the incorporation of addiction medicine into medical training.
Ashish Thakrar, MD
MD
Ashish Thakrar, MD is a Fellow in the National Clinician Scholars Program at the Perelman School of Medicine. Dr. Thakrar is an Internist and an Addiction Medicine Specialist. Dr. Thakrar’s research and advocacy focuses on improving access to treatment for opioid use disorder in the fentanyl era, improving quality and retention in care for patients with addiction, and in health services reform to standardize hospital-based care for patients with addiction. Dr. Thakrar works clinically in primary care and as a hospital-based Addiction Medicine Consult physician.
No relevant financial disclosures
CME, CE, CEU and Other Credit Types
ACCME Accreditation Statement
The American Society of Addiction Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
AMA Credit Designation Statement
The American Society of Addiction Medicine designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals
This activity has been approved by the American Society of Addiction Medicine, as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for educational credits. NAADAC Provider #295, ASAM is responsible for all aspects of the programming.
California Association for Drug/Alcohol Educators (CAADE)
This educational program is approved by CAADE: #CP40 999 1225.
California Association of DUI Treatment Centers (CADTP)
This educational program is approved by CADTP: #205.
California Consortium of Addiction Programs and Professionals (CCAPP)
This educational program is approved by CCAPP: #OS-20-330-1224.
Continuing Education Credits (CEUs)
Non-physician participants will receive a certificate of attendance upon completion of the activity and an online evaluation confirming their participation. Participants should submit his/her certificate of attendance to their professional organization/institute.
Maintenance of Certification / Continuing Certification Program
American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM)
The American Board of Preventive Medicine (ABPM) has approved this activity for 1.25 credits towards ABPM MOC Part II requirements.
American Board of Anesthesiology (ABA)
This activity contributes to the CME component of the American Board of Anesthesiology’s redesigned Maintenance of Certification in Anesthesiology TM (MOCA®) program, known as MOCA 2.0®.
American Board of Pediatrics (ABP)
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the activity, with individual assessments of the participant and feedback to the participant, enables the participant to earn 1.25 MOC points in the American Board of Pediatrics’ (ABP) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABP MOC credit.
American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM)
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn 1.25 Medical Knowledge MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine’s (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. Participants will earn MOC points equivalent to the amount of CME credits claimed for the activity. It is the CME activity provider’s responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credits.
American Board of Surgery (ABS)
Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the learner to earn credit toward the CME and/or Self-Assessment requirements of the American Board of Surgery’s Continuous Certification program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit learner completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABS credit.
American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN)
Successful completion of this CME activity can be used to satisfy the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology’s (ABPN) CME requirement for Maintenance of Certification program.
American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM)
Successful completion of this activity can be used to satisfy the American Board of Addiction Medicine (ABAM) for Tmoc as credits towards ABAM LLSA Part II requirements.
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC)
Royal College Fellows can use participation in Accredited Continuing Medical Education to earn Section 3 Credits.
Disclosure Information
In accordance with disclosure policies of ASAM and the ACCME, the effort is made to ensure balance, independence, objectivity, and scientific rigor in all CME/CE activities. These policies include mitigating all possible relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies for the Planning Committees and Presenters. All activity Planning Committee members and Presenters have disclosed relevant financial relationship information. The ASAM CE Committee has reviewed these disclosures and determined that the relationships are not inappropriate in the context of their respective presentations and are not inconsistent with the educational goals and integrity of the activity.
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