Program Curriculum
The Sleep Medicine Fellowship is a 12-month long training program, which includes opportunities to rotate through all sites within the Mount Sinai Health System and the Mount Sinai-National Jewish Respiratory Institute. Fellows will evaluate patients with a variety of sleep disorders including, sleep disordered breathing, disorders of excessive somnolence, disorders of initiating and maintaining sleep, and parasomnias. They will score and interpret polysomnograms, conduct multiple sleep latency and maintenance of wakefulness testing, and have the opportunity to assess sleep hygiene in patients with disorders of initiating and maintaining sleep. There are weekly sleep conferences that will further augment the learning experience of fellows including weekly journal clubs, grand rounds, sleep case conference, sleep didactic conference and daily morning sleep study review with a board certified sleep physician and overnight sleep technicians. More specifically, the fellowship training is dedicated to learning the fundamentals of scoring and interpreting polysomnograms, multiple sleep latency and maintenance of wakefulness tests, portable sleep monitor recordings, downloads from positive pressure devices, sleep diaries and standardized scales of sleepiness. The training is focused evaluating, diagnosing and comprehensively treating patients over the entire spectrum of pediatric and adult sleep and circadian rhythm disorders as well as medical, neurological and psychiatric disorders that may present with sleep related complaints. The fellows will enhance their medical knowledge regarding fundamental mechanisms of sleep and wakefulness, cardiovascular influence of sleep and sleep disorders, sleep related movement disorders, parasomnias, insomnia and other sleep disorders The fellows will also have the opportunity to pursue research projects and present at national conferences and/or prepare manuscript publications.
Typical Schedule
Sleep Medicine Conferences
Journal Club (Mondays)
A designated fellow meets with one of the above attendings in advance to review either a pulmonary, critical care or sleep medicine article (chosen by the fellow or mentor) prior to this discussion.
Sleep Research Conference
(Tuesdays)
This conference involves reviewing research projects, grants and manuscripts.
Multi-Disciplinary Sleep Case Conference
(Wednesdays)
Three to four pre-determined sleep cases are discussed by having their clinical history presented in a multidisciplinary forum with sleep faculty, neurology, sleep laboratory staff, physician assistant and dentist.
Sleep Medicine Grand Rounds
Lectures given by regional and nationally recognized faculty.
Sleep Fellow Bootcamp Series (Wednesdays)
We will include all the ACGME core curriculum topics given by our sleep faculty for a comprehensive understanding of sleep medicine as the fellows begin their fellowship.
Pulmonary Grand Rounds
(Fridays)
Fellows, faculty members, and guest speakers present various clinical and research topics in pulmonary, critical care and sleep medicine.
Contact Us
Ava Gerardo, MHA Program Manager Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine ava.gerardo@mssm.edu
1 Gustave L. Levy Place Box 1232 New York, NY 10019 (212) 241-7389