Sleep Medicine

Catalog description

The Sleep Medicine elective is intended to provide the student with a broad overview of the specialty of Sleep Medicine. The student will attend the Sleep Medicine clinic where patients with various conditions can be expected, including patients with: sleep disordered breathing, insomnia, restless legs syndrome and narcolepsy as well as numerous other, less common, disorders. The student’s experience is complemented by time in the sleep laboratory where there is an opportunity to learn the fundamentals of sleep technology relevant to Sleep Medicine. Formal didactics, case conferences and journal clubs further enrich the student’s experience. This rotation should be of particular interest to those students considering careers in Sleep Medicine, as well as those with interests in general medicine and its subspecialties, psychiatry, pediatrics and otolaryngology.