“For my emergency medicine colleagues, addiction medicine creates opportunities to intervene before patients present to the ED in crisis. There is a special kind of satisfaction that comes not just from relieving distress (e.g., from withdrawal), but providing lifesaving treatment that can be done during a brief ED visit.”
How We Succeed
Although MI CARES was conceived as a regional initiative to address the need for Addiction Medicine specialists in Michigan, physicians all over the U.S. are enrolling in MI CARES’ Practice Pathway program in order to meet the rising demand for addiction specialists in their own communities.
MI Success
MI CARES set two ambitious goals. One, to increase the Addiction Medicine workforce in Michigan, and two, to implement an Addiction Medicine curriculum into undergraduate medical education. Initially, MI CARES was developed as a regional initiative to address the need for Addiction Medicine specialists in Michigan.
Today, physicians from all over the U.S. are enrolling in MI CARES’ Practice Pathway program to meet the rising demand for addiction specialists in their own communities. MI CARES has a dedicated, knowledgeable, and professional staff to support our participants, content experts to help develop our evidence-based curriculum, and medical students setting the stage as the next generation of leaders in the field of Addiction Medicine.
Statistics
Michigan
13
new board-certified physicians in 2021
Out-of-State
38 new board-certified physicians in 2021
95
%
of participating physicians
said MI CARES simplified the certification process
Out-of-State
38
new board-certified physicians in 2021
Medical Students
36
Year-1 medical students enrolled in the inaugural 4-week Addiction Medicine elective at MSU
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