MN SF1269

Appropriates $270,000 in fiscal year 2024 and $270,000 in fiscal year 2025 from the general fund to support up to three physicians per year enrolled in an addiction medicine fellowship program at Hennepin County Medical Center.

Funds are transferred through the Commissioner of the Office of Higher Education and allocated at $90,000 per physician if fewer than three physicians are enrolled.

Hennepin County Medical Center must certify annually to the commissioner the number of physicians actually enrolled in the addiction medicine fellowship.

Appropriated funds support training in diagnostic interviewing, motivational interviewing, addiction counseling, withdrawal syndrome recognition, pharmacotherapies, epidemiology, special population treatment, screening instruments, inpatient care, and multidisciplinary team work.

Funds are designated to prepare fellows to practice addiction medicine in rural and underserved areas of the state.