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What is the Advanced Medical Student Assistantship/Clerkship? Through the generous funding of the Scaife Family Foundation, the Institute for Research, Education and Training in Addictions is able to conduct this specialized program. The program offers students training in the field of Addiction Services incomparable to any they may have encountered in their prior medical school education or residency experience. Is there any financial compensation for participation in the program? Participants will receive a $150 per week stipend and a $200 transportation allowance for a total of $650 for the three weeks. Rooms and meals are also provided. What do the students do in the program? Students who are accepted into the program participate in an intense learning experience. Their schedules include: • Lectures • Patient contact • Group session with clients • Rounds with resident physicians • Opportunity to present what the students have learned  What are the benefits of participating in the Scaife Assistantship/Clerkship? This program will provide participants with a clinical experience to increase awareness and knowledge in the following areas: • Screening and diagnosing substance use disorders • Research in substance use disorders • Brief motivational interviewing skills • Adult and adolescent substance use disorders • Neonatal treatment of chemically dependent infants • Maternal addiction • Special population issues in addictions treatment • Professional impairment • Residential/inpatient and outpatient treatment modalities • Family issues in treatment • Psychiatric co-morbidity • Methadone maintenance • Systems issues in addictions treatment • Providing referrals to addictions treatment Who conducts the program? The Institute for Research, Education and Training in Addictions (IRETA). Who is eligible to apply? Only medical students attending U.S. medical schools will be eligible to participate in this program. How many students will be accepted? In order to optimize the clinical experience of the participants, six students will be accepted for each session. When is the program? The Scaife program is offered in two three-week sessions. Students are permitted to attend only one session.
 “The Fellowship contributed to my future. In addition, it opened my eyes to addiction and life . . . I liked both how the program was organized and how well it was organized. I would highly recommend it to any medical student” Former Scaife Fellow “Medical students are more eager than ever to learn how to recognize and treat chemical dependency. They know they cannot practice medicine today without these skills. For this reason, they are demanding more from this clerkship, asking better questions, and, as a result, have increased the value of this training”. Michael T. Flaherty, Ph.D. Executive Director, IRETA The Institute for Research, Education and Training in Addictions is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit entity responsible for coordinating the transfer of all state-of-the-art knowledge to the practice of addictions treatment. For more information about the Scaife program, please contact your medical school's academic affairs office, or download the Scaife 2010 Brochure. |