Sleep Medicine Fellowship Program Details

The ACGME-accredited, one-year fellowship program accepts 3 fellows per academic year. The program is located in Edison, New Jersey.

Curriculum

Through multidisciplinary clinical care and didactic sessions, the fellow will gain an understanding of the principal theoretical and technical underpinnings of the polysomnography laboratory and the clinical discipline of sleep medicine. Patient care is conducted through faculty-supervised outpatient clinics in which practical elements of patient care are combined with discussions. Fellows also attend weekly reading sessions of PSG, MSLT, MWT and Actigraphy interpretation with a sleep attending. The fellow will gain competence in the evaluation of patients in the sleep disorders clinic and in the scoring and interpretation of PSG, MSLT, MWT and actigraphy. Also, the fellow will get training in activation and programming of the hypoglossal neuro-stimulator device for treatment of OSA.

Didactics

The program director focuses each month on a specific area within sleep medicine. Weekly lectures in Sleep Medicine are geared toward building knowledge within that topic, culminating in a quiz at the end of the month to gauge the fellow’s knowledge in the subject. Lectures cover the basic science of sleep, technological aspects, and clinical sleep disorders. Fellows are also expected to participate in monthly journal clubs (or present grand rounds) in the last quarter of the academic year, to critically review the latest research and literature in the field of sleep medicine.
Fellows also participate in research by performing quality improvement projects with interdisciplinary teams.

Additional educational conferences include: Neurology lectures – daily lectures on various neurological topics. Fellows are invited to attend relevant lectures on epilepsy, EEGs, movement disorders, pediatric neurology to supplement their learning.

Research Opportunities

Throughout the year, fellows will engage in a dedicated research project. They have the flexibility to either join an established, IRB-approved longitudinal study within the program or to launch an original project or case report. The fellowship encourages fellows to present their research at national and local conferences, including at the SLEEP annual conference by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the NJ Sleep Society Annual Conference, and the JFK Neuroscience Institute's Zappulla Research Day.