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MN HF2660

Bill

Official Source

Status

Introduced

3/8/2016

Primary Sponsor

Dave Baker

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Origin

House of Representatives

89th Legislature 2015-2016

AI Summary

  • Appropriates $280,000 in fiscal year 2017 from the general fund to the Office of Higher Education to establish a grant program.
  • Grant program supports up to four physicians per year enrolled in an addiction medicine fellowship program.
  • Grant recipients must be enrolled in programs training fellows in diagnostic interviewing, motivational interviewing, addiction counseling, withdrawal syndrome management, and pharmacotherapies of addictive disorders.
  • Required program curriculum includes epidemiology and pathophysiology of addiction, treatment of special populations, screening instruments, inpatient care, and multidisciplinary team practices.
  • Programs must prepare physicians to practice addiction medicine in rural and underserved areas of Minnesota.

Legislative Description

Addiction medicine graduate medical education fellowship program grant program established, and money appropriated.

Last Action

Author added Peterson.

3/24/2016

Committee Referrals

Higher Education Policy and Finance3/8/2016

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