The Board Review Study Session webinars will help candidates prepare for the American Board of Medical Specialties examination in sleep medicine. During these 90-minute sessions, experienced sleep medicine specialists will facilitate discussions on medical content areas on the examination as listed in the Sleep Medicine Certification Examination Blueprint. Each session will employ questions from the AASM Practice Examination, which participants will receive in advance of the session, as a starting point for discussion.
Presentations included in this series are:
- Sleep Evaluation
- Sleep Related Breathing Disorders
- Considerations Unique to Childhood
Webinar Summaries
Sleep Evaluation
Presented May 5, 2009. Speaker: Douglas Kirsch, MD.
This webinar includes a discussion about methods used for assessing sleep disorders. This includes polysomnography, CPAP titration, multiple sleep latency testing, actigraphy and sleep logs. Questions from the AASM Practice Examination are used as a starting point for discussion.
Sleep Related Breathing Disorders
Presented April 28, 2009. Speaker: Babak Mokhlesi, MD.
This webinar includes a discussion about diagnostic and therapeutic issues regarding sleep related breathing disorders. Clinical vignettes and record fragments will be used.
Considerations Unique to Childhood
Presented May 13, 2009. Speaker: Shahriar Shahzeidi, MD.
This webinar includes a discussion about normal sleep in children as well as diagnostic and therapeutic issues related to sleep disorders in children. Clinical vignettes and record fragments are used.