Addiction Medicine at Western Maine Health, Norway, ME
MERGE Collaborative · Norway, ME · 3 days ago
Full-time
About the role
To Provide the GME learner with a rural addiction medicine outpatient and inpatient practice experience embedded in a multi-physician and nurse practitioner primary care practice.
Rotation Director
Rosemary Miller, MD
Responsibilities
- Provide comprehensive assessments and development of treatment plans for all substance use disorders (opioid, stimulant, alcohol, cannabis, nicotine)
- Provide Hepatitis C treatment and follow up
- Partner with the Maine MOM program for perinatal substance use treatment
- Initiate and sustain preventative care for patients with complex substance use disorders
- Attend recovery groups that occur on site multiple times per week
- Manage opioid use disorder through the use of long acting medication options including naltrexone and long acting injectable buprenorphine
- Coordinate higher level of care referrals such as inpatient withdrawal management, IOP, partial hospitalization programming, psychiatry and/or methadone
- Work with several family medicine physicians who provide MOUD services to patients with opioid use disorder prescribing and monitoring
- Incorporate preventative/primary care and chronic disease management into the overall care of those patients with complex substance use disorders
Requirements
PGY2 or above Family Medicine residency
Qualifications
Not specified
Skills
Not specified
Benefits
Not specified
Pay
Not specified
Schedule
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Contact Information
Contact physician recruiter Donna Lafean at donna.lafean@mainehealth.org for more information