{"id":11990,"date":"2020-11-04T13:00:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T18:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/?page_id=11990"},"modified":"2025-09-11T14:57:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T18:57:49","slug":"program-description-and-target-audience","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/education-and-training-programs\/training-programs\/crit\/program-description-and-target-audience\/","title":{"rendered":"Program Description and Target Audience"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>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.<\/span> 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.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/care\/files\/2025\/09\/20250428_080651.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/care\/files\/2025\/09\/20250428_080651-636x358.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"636\" height=\"358\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14932 size-medium\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/files\/2025\/09\/20250428_080651-636x358.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/files\/2025\/09\/20250428_080651-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/files\/2025\/09\/20250428_080651-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/files\/2025\/09\/20250428_080651-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/files\/2025\/09\/20250428_080651-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/files\/2025\/09\/20250428_080651-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/files\/2025\/09\/20250428_080651-992x558.jpg 992w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/files\/2025\/09\/20250428_080651-1500x844.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/files\/2025\/09\/20250428_080651-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/files\/2025\/09\/20250428_080651-1984x1116.jpg 1984w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Program Objectives<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Recall the foundational science of substance use disorders<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Improve clinical skills in addiction medicine<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Integrate substance use issues into teaching<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Describe career and research opportunities in addiction medicine<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: left;\">Address racial and ethnic inequities within unhealthy substance use<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/care\/files\/2025\/09\/20250429_191653.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-14931 size-medium\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/care\/files\/2025\/09\/20250429_191653-636x358.jpg\" height=\"358\" width=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/files\/2025\/09\/20250429_191653-636x358.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/files\/2025\/09\/20250429_191653-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/files\/2025\/09\/20250429_191653-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/files\/2025\/09\/20250429_191653-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/files\/2025\/09\/20250429_191653-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/files\/2025\/09\/20250429_191653-1200x675.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/files\/2025\/09\/20250429_191653-992x558.jpg 992w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/files\/2025\/09\/20250429_191653-1500x844.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/files\/2025\/09\/20250429_191653-1920x1080.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/www.bumc.bu.edu\/care\/files\/2025\/09\/20250429_191653-1984x1116.jpg 1984w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To read more about the results of the program:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/care\/files\/2010\/06\/ALFORD-CRIT-paper1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">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. <em>JGIM<\/em>. 2009;24:40-47.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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