Sleep Medicine

Catalog description

This elective serves as an overview of sleep medicine. Sleep disorders are very common and can lead to serious health consequences if left untreated. Although these disorders are commonly encountered in clinical practice, very little time is dedicated to sleep medicine in the traditional medical school curriculum. There has been an explosion in this multidisciplinary field, which is now a 1 year ACGME approved fellowship. Faculty are from the departments of internal medicine, neurology, psychiatry, pediatrics, and psychology. While spending time in our new state of the art Sleep Disorders Center (adults) and Pediatric Sleep and Research Center (children), students.