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Addiction Medicine Fellowship

Grand Rapids Medical Education

Trinity Health Grand Rapids offers a 1-year ACGME accredited Addiction Medicine fellowship. As an established medical community, we offer our fellows a diverse comprehensive experience in addiction medicine. In addition to general addiction experiences including methadone clinics/opioid treatment programs, outpatient-based addiction treatment, and others, our program uniquely integrates with our hospice and palliative care fellowship. Learners will explore co-occurring psychiatric illness through both inpatient and consultative psychiatry.

Finally, our fellows will work within the broader community to understand behavioral health community-based programs including working with individuals with severe, persistent mental illness, participating in intensive outpatient programming, working with family engagement teams, and other community-based psychosocial treatments.

They will explore the criminal-legal system, incarcerated individuals, and community correctional control through engagement with the county prosecutor’s office with a focus on understanding the various ways individuals with substance use disorders interact with the legal system.

The clinical hub for our fellows is 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 accomplishing 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, known 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, developing skills and sensitivity in the areas of reverence for life, commitment to the poor, justice, stewardship of resources, safety, and integrity.

Consistent with our stated mission, our goals include:

  • Providing fellows with diverse clinical experiential training environments that expose them to a wide variety of 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 clinical knowledge scaffolding for patient care and to successfully pass the addiction medicine board exam offered through the ABPM.