To amend the Public Health Service Act to authorize fellowships under the Minority Fellowship Program to be awarded for training for professionals in the addiction medicine field.
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Latest Action · October 26, 2023
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
This bill amends federal law to expand the Minority Fellowship Program to include training for addiction medicine specialists. Currently, the program supports fellowships in mental health fields like psychiatry, but it does not specifically include addiction medicine as an eligible specialty. The legislation adds addiction medicine to the list of fields eligible for fellowship funding under this existing program. This change will help increase the number of addiction medicine providers from underrepresented minority backgrounds, which aims to improve access to substance abuse treatment services in communities that often face shortages of qualified providers. The bill does not specify new funding amounts or implementation timelines, instead working within the existing fellowship program structure.
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