sleep medicine fellowship
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Sleep Medicine Fellowship. Program Director: Ulysses J. Magalang Program Coordinator: Colleen Tennant. What are the opportunities?. Huge unmet need. 50-70 million Americans chronically suffer from a disorder of sleep and wakefulness. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Sleep Medicine FellowshipProgram Director: Ulysses J. Magalang
Program Coordinator: Colleen Tennant
What are the opportunities?
Huge unmet need
• 50-70 million Americans chronically suffer from a disorder of sleep and wakefulness.
• 80-90% of adults with clinically significant sleep-disordered breathing remain undiagnosed.
• Sleep disorders are chronic conditions.
Institute of Medicine, 2006
Need for more sleep specialists
Need for more sleep centers
Institute of Medicine, 2006
Research opportunities
Institute of Medicine, 2006
Who qualifies?
• Completed ACGME accredited training in:– Internal medicine– Pediatrics– Neurology– Psychiatry– ENT– Family practice
Sleep medicine fellowship
• One year fellowship
• Training sites:– OSU (7 board-certified sleep specialists)– Nationwide Childrens (2 board-certified)
• Largely an outpatient experience
Sleep medicine-interdisciplinary field
• Pulmonary
• Neurology
• Pediatrics
• Psychiatry
• ENT
• Dentistry
ACGME minimum requirements
• New adult patients 200
• Follow-up adult patients 300
• New pediatric patients 40
• Follow-up pediatric patients 40
• Inpatient consultations 10
ACGME minimum requirements
• PSG 200
• MSLT/MWT 25
• Scoring 25 (5 peds)
Board certification
• Certified in IM or in one subspecialty
• Passed the certification exam– 2007, 2009, 2011
Type of practice
• full-time
• combination
Physician wRVUs (2007)
• PSG: 3.79
• BAL: 2.88