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Sep 07, 2024
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OCOM 8118 - Internal Medicine Subspecialty - Sleep Medicine After completing one required four-week rotation in General Internal Medicine, students must complete an additional eight weeks of internal medicine selectives. These selectives may consist of two-, three-, or four-week rotations in internal medicine specialties approved by the American Board of Internal Medicine. Recently the board has added sleep medicine to the list of subspecialties for which they provide certification; Heritage College would like to add a course in Sleep Medicine to the rotations available to osteopathic medical students for IM selective rotations.
Credit Hours: 4-8
Course Outcomes
- Demonstrate the ability, appropriate for the level of training of the individual, to construct a differential diagnosis in patients presenting with signs and symptoms related to sleep disorders.
- Describe classification criteria and clinical features of various sleep disorders (e.g. circadian rhythm disorders, insomnia, snoring, sleep apnea, narcolepsy, restless legs syndrome, sleepwalking).
- Describe diagnostic criteria for sleep disorders.
- Discuss current treatment options for sleep disorders.
- For sleep meds, understand the dosing, pharmacokinetics, metabolism, mechanisms of action, side effects, drug interactions, compliance issues, costs, and use in patients including fertile, lactating, and pregnant women.
- Learn to interpret the results of various laboratory test used in obtaining differential diagnoses while assessing sleep disorders.
- Recognize clinical presentations, pathophysiology and rationale for the treatment of common sleep disorders.
- Recognize physical examination findings that may result from sleep disorders.
- Review stages and rhythms of normal sleep and lifestyle matters that may disrupt sleep.
- Understand principles of history-taking and assist in obtaining a clinical history, relevant review of systems, and functional status of patients with sleep disorders.
- Understand principles of physical examination and demonstrate competency in performing and interpreting a physical examination.
- Understand the impact that sleep disorders have on the overall treatment of a patient with sleep disorders and demonstrate knowledge of what can be done to assist a patient in these areas.
- Understand the use of a sleep study and observe and assist in the procedure.
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