Career Development Member Resources-ACGME Basics: Addiction Medicine

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The lecture focused on the ACGME “nuts and bolts” of Addiction Medicine fellowships, explaining how fellowship design, accreditation, and evaluation work for both trainees and educators. Claudia Moore described Addiction Medicine as a multispecialty, lifespan-oriented field that prepares physicians for clinical care, research, education, and public health roles. She reviewed what is required to build or run a fellowship, including funding, accreditation, faculty development, and program structure.<br /><br />Key ACGME requirements include nine months of clinical experience, with three months each of inpatient and outpatient training, a continuity clinic experience, half-day weekly didactics, and instruction in pain management. Programs must have a qualified program director, associate program director, core faculty, psychiatric involvement, and access to clinicians with pain and lifespan expertise. <br /><br />She also explained the major oversight structures: the Clinical Competency Committee (CCC), which evaluates fellow milestones and provides formative and summative assessments, and the Program Evaluation Committee (PEC), which reviews program strengths, weaknesses, and improvement plans annually. Emphasis was placed on frequent, specific, private, and compassionate feedback, careful documentation, and bias awareness. The talk ended with practical guidance on keeping programs compliant with changing ACGME requirements and an announcement of upcoming lectures.

Keywords

Addiction Medicine

ACGME

fellowship accreditation

Clinical Competency Committee

Program Evaluation Committee

fellowship requirements

faculty development

program evaluation