Addiction Psychiatry Fellowship

Integral Care support adults and children living with mental illness, substance use disorder and intellectual and developmental disabilities. Founded in 1967, it is the Local Mental Health and Intellectual and Developmental Disability Authority for Travis County. Substance use disorder rotations for fellows include the opioid treatment program (methadone clinic), buprenorphine clinics, an outpatient withdrawal clinic, a walk-in assessment and navigation clinic and the intensive outpatient program. Treatment modalities include addiction pharmacotherapy, management of co-occurring psychiatric conditions and individual and group psychotherapy.

The Central Texas VA serves more than 2,300 veterans with substance use disorder per year. Fellows rotate at the Austin Outpatient Clinic’s substance abuse treatment program, which also serves as a psychology internship training program. Clinical training includes management of addiction and co-occurring psychiatric conditions and longitudinal experience in a multi-phase supportive outpatient program delivering evidence-based individual and group psychotherapy.

UT Health Austin offers primary care and specialty services designed and managed by faculty and staff of Dell Medical School. Fellows rotate as addiction psychiatry consultants, which could include clinics such as primary care, women’s health, geriatrics, musculoskeletal, oncology and other specialty clinics.

Dell Seton Medical Center serves as the primary teaching hospital for Dell Med. Fellows rotate as part of the consultation-liaison psychiatry service, which includes a proactive service screening all people admitted to the hospital who might benefit from consultation as well as a multidisciplinary inpatient buprenorphine team.