 The goal of the Addiction Medicine Fellowship here at Jersey Shore University Medical Center is to promote all the latest techniques and training in addiction medicine. We want to make sure that everyone gets exposed to all of the different aspects of clinical training within the field of addiction medicine. Fellows are going to get a very thorough understanding of the different modalities of psychotherapy. Addiction medicine physicians must understand how trauma impacts the individual both biologically and psychologically. We want to treat the whole person. Our fellowship is designed to be a one-year, 12-month fellowship. At the end of our training at 12 months, all of the fellows will be eligible to sit for the Addiction Medicine Boards. The fellows will get exposure to biological and neurobiological underpinnings of addiction medicine, the psychological components including cognitive behavioral therapies, group therapies, and family therapies, and then the psychological piece into the psychiatric piece including dual diagnosis and situations like dealing with depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, trauma, and anxiety. I'm trained in emergency medicine. I'm specializing in addiction medicine, and I think it is really really unique that our fellowship has the opportunity to introduce fellows to each and every single one of these specialties in a robust way. I think that working with the EED, working with the inpatient, and working with the console services will only prove to make us stronger fellows and stronger doctors. It's all about collaboration. I think one of the greatest assets of our program is that Hackensack Meridian is such a large system and that we have so many different clinical environments to choose from. Carrier Clinic has a large inpatient unit as well as outpatient programs that are going to be involved and going over there. Jersey Shore Addiction Services here is one of the largest methadone treatment programs. They're going to be spending a lot of time over there. So I'm very confident that they're going to be getting really just an excellent training. We have an intensive outpatient program in our addiction recovery services. We have adolescent addictions. We have OBAT training, office-based addiction treatment, and then we have buprenorphine and suboxone treatment. So all of the future treatments of addiction medicine as well as the state of the art current clinical treatments. Our goal is to give our fellows a 360 degree training so they feel very competent when they leave our program.