A Sleep Medicine Curriculum for Pulmonary and Pulmonary/Critical Care Fellowship Programs: A Multisociety Expert Panel Report.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pulmonary medicine specialists find themselves responsible for the diagnosis and management of patients with sleep disorders. Despite the increasing prevalence of many of these conditions, many sleep medicine fellowship training slots go unfilled, leading to a growing gap between the volume of patients seeking care for sleep abnormalities and the number of physicians formally trained to manage them. To address this need, we convened a multisociety panel to develop a list of curricular recommendations related to sleep medicine for pulmonary fellowship training programs.

Methods

Surveys of pulmonary and pulmonary/critical care fellowship program directors and recent graduates of these programs were performed to assess the current state of sleep medicine education in

SUBMITTER: Schulman DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6435938 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature