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About the Centers of Excellence (COE)
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) established four Centers of Excellence for Physician Information to serve as national models for the advancement of addiction awareness, prevention, and treatment in primary care practices. The NIDA Centers of Excellence (NIDA-COE) will target physicians-in-training, including medical students and resident physicians in primary care specialties (e.g., internal medicine, family practice, and pediatrics).
The Centers are being developed in collaboration with the American Medical Association's (AMA) Research Education Consortium and are part of NIDA's ongoing Physician Outreach Program. NIDA-COE will identify drug addiction knowledge gaps, develop educational materials and resources specifically designed for physicians in training to address those gaps, and determine the most effective means of delivering this information. The ultimate goal is to raise primary care physician's awareness of drug addiction as a health issue and to further facilitate the dissemination of knowledge on how best to prevent, diagnose, and treat patients struggling with prescription and illicit drug abuse.
NIDA is establishing the Centers at academic medical institutions across the country. The NIDA COEs for 2007 will be located at:
The NIDA COEs will focus on a variety of areas, including prescription drug abuse, methamphetamine abuse and addiction, comorbid substance abuse and mental illness, and other issues related to drug abuse.
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