Thoracic and Sleep Medicine

Sleep Medicine

Advanced Training Program in Sleep Medicine

Assessment
As per the thoracic training guidelines, if you are predominantly specialising in paediatric sleep medicine (level II),

• you are expected to present a paper at the annual scientific meeting of the TSANZ or the ASA.
  or
  
• to prepare an article that is accepted for publication by a peer reviewed journal.

Training Posts
Training should be approved in advance by the Thoracic and Sleep Medicine SAC, and undertaken in a TSANZ approved multi-disciplinary paediatric sleep disorders service or equivalent. Interaction with other relevant disciplines eg, neuro-developmental medicine, or neurology should be readily available. At least one year must be spent in a service that has substantial expertise in sleep-breathing disorders and their commonly associated respiratory complications. Posts will generally include:

• the equivalent of a full-time paediatric sleep paediatrician, or paediatric thoracic paediatrician with experience in sleep medicine
  
• facilities for full polysomnography, MSLT, and non-invasive respiratory support including ventilatory support (CPAP, bilevel devices and ventilation)
  
• regular clinical sleep meetings designed for teaching and for consultation with related disciplines;
  
• library facilities with ready access to major sleep journals and texts, and to literature search facilities such as Medline.

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Log Books
A log book of all procedures must be kept. Records to include all proscribed supervised procedures and sleep study scoring, with details of ages of the children studied. This must include children from infancy to adolescence. The logbook must be available for review by the SAC.

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