Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant Addiction Medicine Trainee
Core
One-year training program for Physician Assistants and Nurse Practitioners to provide integrated mental health and substance use disorder (SUD/OUD) services, including Medications for Opioid Use Disorder (MOUD), in an underserved community-based primary care setting.
Role type
Addiction Medicine Advanced Practitioner Trainee (PA/FNP/PMHNP)
Builds
Integrated mental health and addiction treatment services for patients in a community-based primary care clinic.
Domain
Healthcare / Addiction Medicine / Primary Care
Deliverable
physical/clinical work
Required skills
Initial and ongoing patient assessment, history and physical, treatment plan development, clinical patient care, ordering tests/medications/therapies, patient education and counseling, procedure performance, care coordination, medical documentation.
Preferred skills
Master's Degree in Physician Assistant (PA)
Technologies
Smartphone
Responsibilities
Connect and manage patients receiving MOUD in behavioral health counseling; collaborate with care givers inside and outside the immediate care team; perform procedures; arrange for discharge and after care.
Seniority
Trainee, fixed-term program