sleep medicine fellowship

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