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| Hi, Everyone! I apologize for the delay, but I was having some trouble sending a post yesterday and all morning. As you all know, there is going to be a sleep fellowship match this year. You should have already received an initial informational email from the Electronic Residency Application System (ERAS). Additional details will be forthcoming in the upcoming weeks/months from both ERAS and NRMP. I have spoken to some of you already, and I also know that programs are very anxious about this entirely new process for us. This is certainly understandable. I can say from experience that working with ERAS and NRMP is generally viewed as positive by the PDs, programs, and the applicants. There definitely is a steep learning curve, but it is not very complicated. Hopefully, the growing pains will be minimal. I think it is important that we all commit to doing this together. "Waiting out" the first year to see how it goes could be very detrimental to getting this type of thing off the ground, as I am sure you can imagine. The current PDs on the SMFDC Steering Committee are committeed to full participation in the Sleep Medicine Match. Northwestern, Ohio State, University of Pittsburgh, University of Pennsylvania and University of Washington will each be putting ALL of their available slots into the upcoming match. It is a good idea to get a dialogue going now between all of the programs, before we are formally approached by ERAS and NRMP. Some group discussion, about general concepts as well as specifics if you are experienced with the match process, will not only inform our future interactions with ERAS and NRMP but will likely help us all to move this exciting process along. On behalf of the SMFDC Steering Committee, we welcome any comments/suggestions/questions to the larger group on this PD forum. I look forward to hearing from you. Ilene Rosen
Ilene M. Rosen, MD, MSCE
Program Director, Sleep Medicine Fellowship
University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine
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Last Login: 2/21/2011 1:10:54 PM
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| I was a bit confused by the discussion that occurred in June at the PD meeting that seemed to imply that the NRMP would allow the match with "specialty-specific" slots such as Peds-Sleep or Neuro-Sleep, etc. Is it not our goal as a specialty to blend our experience and develop sleep as a specialty that is born out of all our collective experiences? Rose A. Franco, MD Medical College of Wisconsin Milwaukee WI
Rose Franco, MD
Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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