Clinical Polysomnography and Sleep Medicine
October 13 - 16, 2010
2011 date TBA
CME credit: 37 hours • Tuition: $3,200

This course is designed to provide participants with a comprehensive review of the basics of sleep medicine in a highly structured lecture format complemented by informal hands-on workshops. Clinicians will augment their scoring, report formulation, and sleep laboratory quality control capabilities through intensive review sessions.

Sleep medicine requires a high degree of interaction between the technical and medical components of the sleep disorders diagnosis and treatment teams. Feedback from participants indicates that clinicians and technologists enrolled in the same course has many benefits.

Objectives: At the conclusion of the course the participant should be able to discuss or identify:

• the clinical aspects of normal human sleep
• the preparation of patient and equipment for sleep monitoring
• sleep stage scoring and abnormal events recorded on the polysomnogram
• the symptomatology of sleep disorders and differential diagnoses
• treatment plans for patients with sleep disorders

Lecture Topics:

Workshop Topics:

• Sleep stage scoring
• Review of polysomnograms
• Continuous and bi-level pressure treatment of sleep related breathing disorders
• Case reviews
• Infants
• Abnormal records/artifact recognition
• MSLT/MWT

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education.

The School of Sleep Medicine, Inc.™ is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians and designates this activity for a maximum of 37 credit hours in Category 1 credit towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award™. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the education activity.

Disclosure: It is the intent of The School of Sleep Medicine, Inc.™ to assure that its CME activities should not be influenced by the special interests of individuals associated with its programs. Having an interest in or affiliation with any corporate organization does not necessarily influence a speaker's presentation, but the relationship must be made known in advance to the audience in accordance with the standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. Faculty disclosure statements are provided in the handout material. The School of Sleep Medicine, Inc.™ has not received commercial support for these activities.

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16th Annual Course in Pediatric Sleep Medicine
2011 date TBA
CME credit: 37 hours • Tuition: $3,200

Target Audience: Clinicians, technologists, and other health professionals with interest in the management of infant, pediatric and adolescent sleep disorders.

This course is designed to focus on the developmental aspects of normal infant sleep and sleep disorders in infants, children, and adolescents. Methodological considerations for the laboratory evaluation and diagnostic and treatment issues for this patient population are reviewed.

Objectives: At the conclusion of the course the participant should be able to discuss or identify:

• normal developmental aspects of sleep in infants, children, and adolescents
• the most frequently encountered sleep disorders in infants, children and adolescents
• evaluation, diagnosis, and treatment of sleep disorders in infants, children and adolescents
• recent studies describing the interface between sleep disorders and emotional and behavioral disorders

Lecture Topics:

Workshop Topics:

• Review of equipment
• Review of polysomnograms (infants and children; normal findings; abnormal findings, artifacts)
• Sleep stage scoring and "new rules"
• CPAP
• Case presentations

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education.

The School of Sleep Medicine, Inc.™ is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians and designates this activity for a maximum of 37 credit hours in Category 1 credit towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award™. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the education activity.

Disclosure: It is the intent of The School of Sleep Medicine, Inc.™ to assure that its CME activities should not be influenced by the special interests of individuals associated with its programs. Having an interest in or affiliation with any corporate organization does not necessarily influence a speaker's presentation, but the relationship must be made known in advance to the audience in accordance with the standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. Faculty disclosure statements are provided in the handout material. The School of Sleep Medicine, Inc.™ has not received commercial support for these activities.

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Advanced Course in Sleep Medicine
2011 date TBA
CME credit: 39 hours • Tuition: $3,800

Target Audience:Clinicians preparing to specialize in sleep medicine and prepare for Board exams.This course is designed for those needing an intensive review and consolidation of the basic science of sleep, standards of clinical practice, diagnostic procedures, polysomnogram reading and interpretation.

Objectives: At the conclusion of the course the participant should be able to discuss or identify:

• basic mechanisms of sleep including the neuroanatomical, nerophysiological and neuropharmacological aspects
• basic mechanisms of circadian rhythms
• symptomatology and differential diagnoses of sleep disorders
• the sleep laboratory evaluation process
• sleep vs. wake EEG data and recognition of sleep stages and arousals
• abnormal polysomnographic findings and artifact identification

Lecture Topics:

Workshop Topics:

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education.

The School of Sleep Medicine, Inc.™ is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians and designates this activity for a maximum of 39 credit hours in Category 1 credit towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award™. Each physician should claim only those hours of credit that he/she actually spent in the education activity.

Disclosure: It is the intent of The School of Sleep Medicine, Inc.™ to assure that its CME activities should not be influenced by the special interests of individuals associated with its programs. Having an interest in or affiliation with any corporate organization does not necessarily influence a speaker's presentation, but the relationship must be made known in advance to the audience in accordance with the standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education. Faculty disclosure statements are provided in the handout material. The School of Sleep Medicine, Inc.™ has not received commercial support for these activities.

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Clinical Record Review, PSG Scoring and Report Formulation
October 7 - 9, 2010
2011 date TBA
CME credit: 21 hours • Tuition: $1,850

Course Description:  Intensive review and practice of all aspects of scoring sleep studies.

Target Audience: Physicians, technologists and other healthcare professionals involved in diagnosis and treatment of sleep disorders, who need to acquire or improve skills of data analysis and interpretation.

Objectives: At the conclusion of this course, participants will have initiated pattern recognition skills necessary to identify normal sleep & sleep disorders. This includes:

• overview of PSG and standard recording techniques
• sleep stage scoring
• arousal scoring
• artifact recognition
• scoring of respiratory events
• movement events, including periodic limb movements (PLMs)
• MSLT/MWT protocols and data review
• Positive Airway Pressure Titration