Pediatrics - Sleep Medicine @ Cardinal Glennon Children's Hospital

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Pediatric sleep medicine physicians provide consultative care to children with known or suspected sleep disorders. During the elective, you will continue to build your knowledge regarding common pediatric sleep disorders including: Sleep Disordered Breathing, Insomnia, Hypersomnia, Parasomnias, and Sleep Related Movement Disorders. Skill building will focus on history taking, physical exam, clinical reasoning, decision making, development and implementation of management plans, patient/family communication, medical documentation, patient advocacy, and multidisciplinary collaboration as it pertains to children with sleep concerns. When it comes to your professional growth and career planning, the clinical experience will be primarily in a subspecialty pediatric ambulatory setting and the sleep laboratory. Students considering pediatrics, family medicine, internal medicine, neurology, and psychiatry may find the experience helpful in their profession.