title: Advanced rural skills training - the value of an addiction medicine rotation.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  General practitioners are ideally placed to address drug and alcohol problems in the Australian population. Lack of adequate undergraduate and postgraduate training has been suggested as a key barrier limiting their involvement in addiction medicine.
  
  
  OBJECTIVE
  This article describes the establishment and operations of an advanced rural skills training program at the Lyndon Community - a rural drug and alcohol treatment organisation in New South Wales.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  An addiction medicine rotation offers general practice registrars the opportunity to develop skills and experience in psychosocial interventions as well as physical and mental health issues common in the treatment population. Registrars participating in the Lyndon Community program perceived that the training period had influenced and enhanced their future practice.
authors: Lyndon Community, Research and Training, Orange, New South Wales. jallan@lyndoncommunity.org.au
authors: Julaine
authors: J
authors: Allan
mesh_terms: D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005194:Family Practice / Q000193:education*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D033183:Interdisciplinary Communication; D008297:Male; D008505:Medical Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education*; D009517:New South Wales; D019982:Organizational Case Studies; D011634:Public Health / Q000193:education*; D019035:Rural Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D019966:Substance-Related Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control*