Gary J. Sprouse, MD, has served as a primary care physician at Queen Anne’s Medical Center in Chester, Maryland, for more than three decades. Over the years, Gary J. Sprouse, MD, has developed close professional affiliations with multiple health-care-industry organizations, including the American Association of Addiction Psychiatry (AAAP).
A leading group of psychiatric professionals and academics, the AAAP supports and advocates for its members in a variety of ways. It also provides a wide range of education and training opportunities, including a course entitled Addictions and Their Treatment. Specific topics covered in this course include subjects such as forensic issues in addiction, psychosocial addiction treatments, and gender differences in substance use disorders.
Physician assistants who successfully complete the Addictions and Their Treatment course are eligible for 20 self-assessment credits as part of the Category 1 Continuing Medical Education (CME) program, as recognized by both the American Academy of Physician Assistants and the National Commission on Certification of Physician Assistants. Nurse practitioners can receive 20 Category 1 CME credits, as recognized by the American Association of Nurse Practitioners.
