Our one-year clinical fellowship is designed to train leaders in the field of Addiction Medicine. Our program runs from July 7 – June 30. We have five positions per year.
Please visit our affiliated center, The Center for Addiction Medicine and Policy, where you can view the full Addiction Medicine fellowship faculty listing.
Curriculum and rotations
Penn's rotations encompass a a wide variety of settings. They include the following:
Addiction medicine consult service
Site Directors: Julia Carney, MD and Bridget Durkin, MD
Fellows will spend at least five months providing addiction medicine consult services at both Penn Presbyterian hospital and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. In this role they will guide the management of opiate, alcohol and other substance intoxication and withdrawal syndromes, often in patients with complex medical, surgical, and psychiatric illness. They will work within the context of an interdisciplinary team that includes peer support, care navigators, and social workers. They will follow these patients throughout their hospital stay and then help guide the discharge planning and transitions in care.
Penn family care: Office based treatment
Site Director: Judy Chertok, MD
Penn Family Care and Penn Center for Primary Care are the site for the outpatient continuity practice and have concentrated sessions for the care of patients with SUD and OUD for adults and pregnant individuals. Patients with SUD are referred from within the practice, from the ER/hospital or from the community for specialized support. This subgroup of patients with SUD receives SUD care, obstetric care, general primary care, LGBTQ care, and HIV/HEP C care in a collocated manner.
Prevention Point Philadelphia
Site Director: Judy Chertok, MD
Prevention Point Philadelphia is a social services organization that promotes health, empowerment and safety for communities affected by drug use and poverty. In addition to their multifaceted social services, they also offer MOUD, PREP, PREP, HIV/HEP C treatment, reproductive healthcare, and medical case management. Fellows will work with faculty on site providing medical care.Inpatient detox at HUP CEDAR
Site Director: Sheyda Sabetan, MD (Medical Director of Addiction Psychiatry Services)
Inpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment Unit: Fellows will spend one month providing medical care to patients admitted to HUP's Cedar detox and rehab unit. The team includes psychiatry, addiction counselors, and nursing staff.
Penn Total Recovery
Outpatient Substance Use Disorder Treatment
Site Director: Sung Min Ma, MD
Penn Total Recovery provides intensive outpatient and outpatient levels of care to patients with SUD. Services include individual sessions, groups sessions, psychiatric evaluation and medication management. A strength of this rotation is the ability to work with a multidisciplinary team of addiction counselors, peers, psychiatrists, and Addiction Psychiatry fellows.
Veterans Affairs Hospital – Methadone maintenance program
Site Director: Hope Selarnick, MD
Penn’s VA hospital offers multiple options for SUD including a methadone maintenance treatment program. Patients are referred from throughout the VA for treatment. Fellows will learn about the treatment of OUD with methadone and interdisciplinary care through collaboration with counselors and social workers.
Addiction research
Faculty lead: J. Deanna Wilson, MD, MPH
There are opportunities for fellows to be involved in research related to addiction services and care delivery in hospital, outpatient and community settings. Fellows can also connect with the robust network of clinical and behavioral researchers within the Perelman School of Medicine and the Penn Center for Addiction Medicine and Policy.
Electives
To allow each fellow to meet their individual educational and career objectives, fellows will have a 1-month concentrated elective. This can be used to develop a clinical skill (for example perinatal OUD treatment, infectious disease integration) or to develop a QI or research area.
Didactics
Weekly in person didactics for all fellows taught by expert faculty.
Rural rotation option
Mount Desert Island Hospital (MDI): Fellows participate in a rural addiction medicine rotation in partnership with MDI and the Downeast Treatment Center in Maine. Working alongside an interprofessional team that includes behavioral health providers, social workers, and recovery specialists, fellows provide substance use disorder treatment and integrated primary care for patients in rural communities.