Addiction Medicine Fellowship
The UCLA Department of Family Medicine sponsors a one-year clinical fellowship in Addiction Medicine to provide physicians with the training necessary to recognize and treat patients with substance use disorders (SUD). Eligible candidates are BC/BE. Preference will be given to those in BC/BE in Family Medicine, Internal Medicine, Pediatrics, and Emergency Medicine. However, we also welcome applicants with primary certification in General Surgery, Neurology, Psychiatry and OB. This UCLA training program utilizes a variety of treatment settings from inpatient/residential to outpatient programs at UCLA and the West LA VA Medical Center, as well as community based programs and residential units. Further, the program utilizes the LA County Correctional Medicine unit, which is located within the largest men’s prison in the US. Finally, we have a rotation in the LA County Department of Public Health, providing the fellow with public policy insights and knowledge with respect to the sources and streams of public funds, how they are distributed and Artifical Intelligence what outcomes are measured. Post was generat ed by G SA Content Generator DEMO!
LA County, with a population of 10.1 million, is one of the most ethically and racially diverse populations in the world. Some 35% of the population is foreign born, and the Hispanic population, which numbers almost five million, is the largest Hispanic population north of Mexico City. Although the area is blessed with the natural beauty of scenic beaches framed by incredible flora and mountains, as well as the great wealth as the entertainment center of the world, it is also home to the largest homeless population in the country as well as the largest number of people living below the federal poverty line. While training will occur across a full spectrum of clinical venues, the Fellowship is based within the UCLA Family Health Center in Santa Monica, California. The center is located in a federally designated health professional shortage area (HPSA) for both primary care as well as for mental health. It is home to the UCLA Family Medicine residency program, and its associated Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatric Services program. That is consistent with our belief that treatment of SUD belongs fully integrated as part of the primary care curriculum. Our goal is to train physicians in all aspects of the treatment of patients with substance use disorders, behavioral addictions, and co-occurring psychiatric and medical disorders.
Digital technology in the workplace requires a new definition of "basic skills". The transformation of work requires much more than a mastery of a fixed curriculum inherited from past centuries. Success in the slowly changing worlds of past centuries came from being able to do well what you were taught to do. Success in the rapidly changing world of the future depends on being able to do well what you were not taught to do. Already a great number of Americans are doing jobs and using skills that did not exist when they went to school -- soon it will be the majority. As the slow evolution of school lags further and further behind the rapid evolution of society, NFT increasing numbers of students all over the world see school as irrelevant to life. Many drop out. Many more drop out mentally, emerging from school with poor skills and negative visions of themselves and the society they are entering.
Because of our technology we can restructure our education system. Because of our commitment to democracy we must do it. The image of Jane acquiring powerful knowledge previously inaccessible to all children puts a spotlight on a new ways in which privilege breeds greater privilege. Having a personal computer and the freedom to use it to follow personal learning gives Jane access to a new world of knowledge. If some are left out, the gap between the "haves" and the "have nots" will grow exponentially. Waiting will only increase the difficulty and the cost. The spread of digital technology into every other sector of society makes it inevitable that it will eventually permeate school. Eventually, every student -- and most pre-school children -- will have more computing power than any professor of computer science has today. Indeed, already most home computers have more power than any professor had thirty years ago. And when children grow up with this kind of knowledge-technology it is inconceivable that school will not change very radically.
So the choice is not whether we will consider deep changes in school but how many children will be lost before we recognize that we have to do so. How Much Difference Makes a Difference? There is much talk about "closing the equity gap" or "leveling the playing field" by connecting every classroom to the Internet and NFT so giving every child "access to the Information Highway." But these are abstract phrases. Obviously, limited access is better than none, but it is delusional to think of it as "equity." The minimal action that will make a serious difference is ensuring that every child has a personal computer. But equity is not the only, or even the strongest, reason for a one-to-one ratio of computers to students. The real lesson to be drawn from the vision of Jane learning mathematics by following her passion for graphics is about opening new ways of learning through having full-time access to a computer.
