Over 500 ASAM members are family physicians. This family practice bulletin board is accessible to any family physician, including those who are not currently members of ASAM.  Hopefully some will read it and join our organization. The purpose is to present news applicable to addiction and family medicine, including AAFP, and STFM.

To begin, the Report Section found below will contain the minutes of my reports to AAFP and to the ASAM Board of Directors. We also plan to have a section on News,  STFM, and Educational Courses for Family Physicians. Members who would like to post news should send detailed information to me at NormWetterau@aol.com. At a future date, a forum may be added to where visitors may enagage in dicussion and exchange opinions.  

• ASAM FP workgroup Update - September 6, 2008
• Report to the AAFP May 31, 2008
• Report to the ASAM Board April 2008
• Report to the ASAM Board January 2008 
• Report to PH Commision

• ASAM has new policy supporting the Patient Centered Medical Home: Go to Advocacy on the ASAM website, then public policy, eh medical aspects or simply search for medical home under advocacy; public policy

• SAMHSA announces awards for primary care residencies to teach and integrate screening, brief interventions and referral to treatment into their training programs.

Awards for the SBIRT Medical Residency Programs will be as follows:

• Salinas, Calif.—Natividad Medical Center, $280,781 first year, $1.1 million over five years: The Natividad Family Practice Residency Program will disseminate a cross-cultural approach to SBIRT through practices available at associated clinics as well as local health care agencies.
• San Francisco—Regents of the University of California, $373,929 first year; $1.8 million over five years: This grantee will implement an SBIRT training curriculum for almost 200 primary care residents and will disseminate SBIRT practices across all20departments of San Francisco General Hospital, regionally and statewide.
• New Haven, Conn.—Yale University, $373,924 first year; $1.8 million over five years: This university will promote the adoption of SBIRT among all primary care specialty residents for internal medicine, pediatrics, ob/gyn, psychiatry and emergency medicine; program funds will be used to train 254 residents.
• Chicago—Access Community Health Network, $375,000 first year; $1.8 million over five years: This health center, which has 50 centers in medically underserved areas of Chicago, will train physicians and other health professionals in SBIRT practices. By collaborating with residency programs at the University of Chicago, Jackson Park and Mt. Sinai Hospitals expect to train 276 residents.
• Boston—Children's Hospital Corporation, $374,991 first year; $1.8 million over five years: In addition to developing the SBIRT curriculum to teach pediatric clinicians, this grantee will disseminate the curriculum to pediatrics and family medicine faculty at Children's Hospital.
• New York—Albany Medical College, $375,000 first year; $1.8 million over five years: Partnering with the New York Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services, this organization intends to train 387 medical residents in SBIRT practices by using the World Health Organization model and the Albany Medical College neuroscience addiction module.
• Kettering, Ohio—Kettering Medical Center, $281,250 first year; $1.4 million over five years: This grantee will develop and implement two levels of training programs that will teach medical residents how to use SBIRT practices The goal is to screen 90 percent of patients entering their medical center using the SBIRT system by the end of the third year.
• Portland, Ore.—Oregon Health & Science University, $368,172 first year; $1.8 million over five years: This university will partner with the Northwest Frontier Addiction Technology Transfer Center and the RMC Corp.to disseminate and evaluate a curriculum promoting SBIRT practices to primary care medical residents. More than 400 family practice, preventive medicine and internal medicine residents will be trained.
• Pennsylvania—University of Pittsburgh, $380,661 first year; $1.8 million over five years: This statewide initiative will use an evidence-based curriculum to train approximately 750 medical residents and faculty in SBIRT skills and practices.
• Texas—University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, $375,000 first year; $1.8 million over five years: Under the leadership of the Department of Pediatrics, this organization will train 539 residents in SBIRT skills.
• Washington, D.C.—Howard University, $374,660 first year; $1.8 million over five years: Howard University College of Medicine and Howard University Hospital will make the SBIRT program a standard training component for medical residents in primary care settings and will also incorporate it into regular medical practice. Approximately 560 residents will be trained.

For additional information on the award requirements, see
http://www.samhsa.gov/Grants/2008/ti_08_003.aspx

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