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Charting a New Course for Addiction Education in General Psychiatry Residency Training

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge prior work of the entire AADPRT Addictions Committee as well as an inter-organizational working group who helped develop recommendations for the revision of the ACGME requirements on the management of pain and substance use disorder. This working group included Jeffrey Devido, Karen Drexler, Shelley Greenfield, Michael Hoefer, Ray Hsiao, Frances Levin, and Jill Williams.

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  1. Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, Hanover, NH, USA

    Julia R. Frew

  2. University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA

    Alëna A. Balasanova

  3. Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, IL, USA

    Daniela B. Rakocevic

  4. Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD, USA

    Anne E. Ruble

  5. Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ann C. Schwartz

  6. Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, MA, USA

    Amber Frank & Sandra M. DeJong

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Julia R. Frew has nothing to disclose.

Alëna A. Balasanova has nothing to disclose.

Daniela B. Rakocevic has nothing to disclose.

Anne Ruble has disclosed speaker honorarium for the American Association for Treatment of Opioid Use Disorders Clinicians Course, writing payment for Elsevier Clinical Overviews, and travel support from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and chairs the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training (AADPRT) Psychotherapy Committee.

Ann Schwartz has disclosed serving as an Executive Committee member for AADPRT and the Academy of Consult Liaison Psychiatry.

Amber Frank has disclosed travel support from Talkiatry and Cambridge Health Alliance.

Sandra M. DeJong has disclosed a Manton Family Foundation Grant to develop curriculum on youth mental health for medical schools, royalties from Elsevier for a book on E-Professionalism, travel support as ABPN Psychiatry Director, Chair of the PRITE commission, and Secretary of the APA, and leadership roles as ABPN Psychiatry Director, Chair of the PRITE commission, and Secretary of the APA.

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Frew, J.R., Balasanova, A.A., Rakocevic, D.B. et al. Charting a New Course for Addiction Education in General Psychiatry Residency Training. Acad Psychiatry (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40596-024-01976-w

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