Well-established standards for graduate physician training in evidence-based addiction medicine curricular content do not currently exist; and modern addiction medicine physician training is especially needed in underserved populations and certain geographic locales. This proposal seeks to address these interwoven deficiencies by building on past successful work and taking advantage of the timely opportunity of recent recognition of addiction medicine by the American Board of Medical Specialties as a multispecialty subspecialty, and newly available accreditation of physician fellowship training by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Physician certification and training program accreditation, respectfully, by
