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[Dr. Samet speaking]NIDA has supported, um,
are bringing together twenty Chief Residents in Internal Medicine
and Family Medicine to gain the skills to learn how to go back to their own institutions
and work with their residents and their students, to teach them how to manage those patients
that have come in that have presented challenges quite frankly.
[Dr. Saitz speaking] I think that one of the keys is that these are Chief Residents and Chief Residents
are the leaders in their institution for the residents that are learning what they are
going to use in their practice, really for the rest of their careers. And you know, the
other thing about what we are giving them is not only the practical piece but I think
a shift of attitude. Now some of these folks are of course self-selected, or we've selected
them, so they have some interest already in the area of addiction. But, what we have found
in past years, many of them really get the sense that this is a medical illness and that
it has a scientific basis and some of them are frankly surprised.