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Sleep Medicine Fellowship

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.

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Sleep Medicine Fellowship

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  1. Sleep Medicine Fellowship Program Director: Ulysses J. Magalang Program Coordinator: Colleen Tennant

  2. What are the opportunities?

  3. 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

  4. Need for more sleep specialists

  5. Need for more sleep centers Institute of Medicine, 2006

  6. Research opportunities Institute of Medicine, 2006

  7. Who qualifies? • Completed ACGME accredited training in: • Internal medicine • Pediatrics • Neurology • Psychiatry • ENT • Family practice

  8. Sleep medicine fellowship • One year fellowship • Training sites: • OSU (7 board-certified sleep specialists) • Nationwide Childrens (2 board-certified) • Largely an outpatient experience

  9. Sleep medicine-interdisciplinary field • Pulmonary • Neurology • Pediatrics • Psychiatry • ENT • Dentistry

  10. ACGME minimum requirements • New adult patients 200 • Follow-up adult patients 300 • New pediatric patients 40 • Follow-up pediatric patients 40 • Inpatient consultations 10

  11. ACGME minimum requirements • PSG 200 • MSLT/MWT 25 • Scoring 25 (5 peds)

  12. Board certification • Certified in IM or in one subspecialty • Passed the certification exam • 2007, 2009, 2011

  13. Type of practice • full-time • combination

  14. Physician wRVUs (2007) • PSG: 3.79 • BAL: 2.88

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