Curriculum development for the Saudi sleep medicine fellowship program.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Given the rapid global development of sleep medicine, well-qualified sleep medicine physicians are necessary to meet the demand. Although sleep medicine was accredited as an independent specialty in KSA in 2012, national data suggest that the number of trained and accredited sleep medicine specialists remains comparatively low. A structured sleep medicine fellowship programme was established in KSA in 2009. However, universities issued training and certification without a national training programme under the auspices of the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCFHS). Therefore, plans have been made to establish a national interdisciplinary sleep medicine training programme to serve the whole country.

Methods

In 2020, the SCFHS mandated the Specialty Curricul

SUBMITTER: BaHammam AS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9396068 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature