Program Description and Target Audience

The CRIT Program is a four-day immersion training for incoming chief residents on state-of-the-art methods to diagnose, manage, and teach about addiction medicine. Additional spaces are available for faculty mentors of chief residents. This training equips chief residents with essential skills to teach addiction medicine and will help faculty mentors assist their chiefs with incorporating addiction issues into teaching.

Program Objectives

• Recall the foundational science of substance use disorders
• Improve clinical skills in addiction medicine
• Integrate substance use issues into teaching
• Describe career and research opportunities in addiction medicine
• Address racial and ethnic inequities within unhealthy substance use

To read more about the results of the program:

Alford DP, Bridden C, Jackson AH, Saitz R, Amodeo M, Barnes HN, Samet JH. Promoting substance use education among generalist physicians: an evaluation of the Chief Resident Immersion Training (CRIT) program. JGIM. 2009;24:40-47.