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

1.5 	Section 1. ADDICTION MEDICINE GRADUATE MEDICAL EDUCATION 
1.6 	FELLOWSHIP; APPROPRIATION.
 1.7 	(a) $140,000 in fiscal year 2016 and $280,000 in fiscal year 2017 are appropriated 
1.8 	from the general fund to the commissioner of the Office of Higher Education for transfer 
1.9 	to the Hennepin County Medical Center to support up to four physicians enrolled in an 
1.10 	addiction medicine fellowship program. 
1.11 	(b) The appropriation under this section shall be used: 
1.12 	(1) to train fellows in: (i) diagnostic interviewing; (ii) motivational interviewing; (iii) 
1.13 	addiction counseling; (iv) recognition and care of common acute withdrawal syndromes 
1.14 	and complications; (v) pharmacotherapies of addictive disorders; (vi) epidemiology and 
1.15 	pathophysiology of addiction; (vii) identification and treatment of addictive disorders in 
1.16 	special populations; (viii) secondary interventions; (ix) the use of screening and diagnostic 
1.17 	instruments; (x) inpatient care; and (xi) working within a multidisciplinary team; and 
1.18 	(2) to prepare fellows to practice addiction medicine in rural and underserved areas 
1.19 	of the state.
1.20 	(c) This is a onetime appropriation.