1.1 	A bill for an act
1.2 	relating to higher education; establishing a grant program for an addiction 
1.3 	medicine graduate medical education fellowship program; appropriating money.
1.4 	BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

1.5 	Section 1. APPROPRIATION; ESTABLISHMENT OF A GRANT PROGRAM 
1.6 	FOR AN ADDICTION MEDICINE GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION 
1.7 	FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM.
 1.8 	$280,000 in fiscal year 2017 is appropriated from the general fund to the Office 
1.9 	of Higher Education for the purposes of establishing a grant program used to support 
1.10 	up to four physicians who are enrolled each year in an addiction medicine fellowship 
1.11 	program. A grant recipient must be enrolled in a program that trains fellows in diagnostic 
1.12 	interviewing, motivational interviewing, addiction counseling, recognition and care of 
1.13 	common acute withdrawal syndromes and complications, pharmacotherapies of addictive 
1.14 	disorders, epidemiology and pathophysiology of addiction, addictive disorders in special 
1.15 	populations, secondary interventions, use of screening and diagnostic instruments, 
1.16 	inpatient care, and working within a multidisciplinary team, and prepares doctors to 
1.17 	practice addiction medicine in rural and underserved areas of the state.