Friday, April 26, 2024
4/26/2024
Project Abstract Summary The number of admissions for heroin in Alabama increased 220% from 2014 to 2017. Yet, only 3% of physicians in Alabama have completed advanced DATA 2000 training. Thus, Alabama has a profound gap between the number of people needing Medication-assisted Treatment (MAT) service and the number of clinicians who are eligible to deliver MAT service. This project, Urgency to Implement DATA Waiver Training at The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), would serve to close that gap through education of both doctor-in-training and the attending physicians that train them. The UAB Medical Center houses the largest ACGME accredited internal medicine and psychiatry residency programs in the state of Alabama. Yet, consistent with state statistics, only 8% of Internal Medicine and 20% of Psychiatry clinical faculty have completed DATA 2000 training. The focus of our proposed project is to provide training to clinical faculty in the department of psychiatry (29 faculty) and division of general internal medicine (35 faculty) at the UAB medical center. Once clinical faculty members have had initial training and exposure to MAT, we will begin to train residents in these programs. There are thirty-two residents in the psychiatry residency program with eight new trainees added each year. There are one hundred sixteen residents in the internal medicine residency program with thirty-eight new trainees added each year. Thus, in year one, we would be providing initial education to the fifty-four faculty members in both Dept of Psychiatry and division of general internal medicine who do not yet have DATA 2000 training as well as one hundred fifty residents. In years two and three, we would provide supplemental education and support to the clinical faculty. Forty-seven residents will graduate (eight from psychiatry and thirty-eight from internal medicine). One hundred three returning residents will receive re-education and support of what they learned the prior year; and forty-seven new residents will begin the training. Our overarching goal is to expand MAT access through the measureable objectives of increasing; 1) the number of trainers (clinical faculty) with DATA 2000 waivers and skilled in providing MAT, 2) the number of residents who graduate with DATA 2000 waivers, and 3) the number of educational hours addressing MAT that are integrated into the standard curriculum of these residency training programs. We aim to do this through commencing addiction focused didactic lectures and integrating clinical rotations in different settings, including UAB Beacon Addiction Treatment Center, our established MAT clinic, and inpatient addiction unit at UAB. In addition, starting in year two, we will also provide repeated on-site DATA-waiver training to decrease barriers to pursuing this training.
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