addiction psych

[alimarie81]

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Anyone have info on the job market or opportunities in addiction psych? I am M3 and did my family med rotation with a doc who also was medical director at Hazelden (Chicago). I really liked working with these patients and am intersted in how to enter this field- do I have to do psych then fellow, or can you do IM, then fellow?
Also, anyone have info on salary for addiction psych?

 

[OldPsychDoc]

Anyone have info on the job market or opportunities in addiction psych? I am M3 and did my family med rotation with a doc who also was medical director at Hazelden (Chicago). I really liked working with these patients and am intersted in how to enter this field- do I have to do psych then fellow, or can you do IM, then fellow?
Also, anyone have info on salary for addiction psych?

Addiction medicine is likely to be a board-certified speciality in the next few years, accessible via IM or FP, however it is not at the present time "official". Addiction psych is a board-certified specialty requiring a 1 year fellowhip. The salary is rarely much different than general psych, but you get the reward of being an "expert"resource 🙄 to help your colleagues deal with this all-too-common comorbidity, and of working with an interesting subset of patients.

 

[ivers]

Depending on what kind of jobs you are looking at, an additional year of training can increase your salary, sometimes regardless of what the additional year is (research, fellowship, etc). This is based on my own experience in looking at academic psychiatry jobs, so YMMV.

 

[Caetano-MD]

I heard that addiction psychiatrists working in 'residential addiction clinics' (a la Betty Ford???) get huge salaries...

is this true or is it another one of those "Well, it depends..." kind of things?

Cheers

 

[gardilimo]

was just at yale and they have one of the largest departments in addiction. it is huge there!

 

[OldPsychDoc]

I heard that addiction psychiatrists working in 'residential addiction clinics' (a la Betty Ford???) get huge salaries...

is this true or is it another one of those "Well, it depends..." kind of things?

Cheers

You are probably acting as a private consultant in those settings, and thus billing directly for your services to those who can afford to pay. For the other 98% of us, we're providing our services in settings where we are reimbursed according to the "discounts" negotiated by insurers and government agencies. So yeah, it definitely depends...

(Still waiting for this place to offer me a job.) 😉