RESPIRATORY & SLEEP MEDICINE RESPIRATORY MEDICINE sub-menu: DEFINITION OF SPECIALTY GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF TRAINING COMPONENTS OF TRAINING Core Training Desirable Options Procedural Skills Complementary (Non Core) Training Projects or Case Reports Other Specific Requirements Research Training Sites SPECIAL SOCIETIES

Vocational Training Respiratory and Sleep Medicine (cont...) RESPIRATORY MEDICINE (cont...) Projects or Case Reports Trainees are required to: present (or to be principal author of) at least one paper to a meeting of a national or international society, e.g. Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ) or RACP; or prepare an article accepted for publication by a peer reviewed journal. In general, single case reports will not satisfy this criterion. Please note, the report does not have to be presented/published before the end of the second year of advanced training, but evidence of progress must have been provided by that time. Other Specific Requirements Attendance at Meetings Trainees are expected to attend at least one annual scientific meeting of the TSANZ during the 3 years of training. Sleep Medicine Trainees wishing to make sleep medicine an important part of their practice (e.g. to manage complex sleep breathing disorders and to report sleep studies) will be expected to undertake at least one year of training in clinical sleep medicine in an appropriate centre (see Advanced Training Program in Sleep Medicine, levels 1 and 2). Logbook Trainees are required to maintain a logbook which documents clinical procedures including bronchoscopy, sleep studies (scored and reported), CPAP and non invasive ventilation. The information required for each procedure includes the medical record number, the procedure performed and the outcome of the procedure including any complications or unusual features. The logbook should state whether these procedures were supervised or unsupervised. Competence may be assessed on the basis of the written record of procedures in the logbook and the written assessment by supervisors who will be asked to verify the details of the logbook and the trainee's experience and competence. Clinical Respiratory Physiology Those intending to make clinical respiratory physiology an important area of their practice (e.g. to specialise in complex respiratory function testing) are expected to spend the equivalent of one year of non core training in a comprehensively equipped and staffed laboratory, performing a wide range of respiratory function tests under the supervision of physicians specialising in this area of medicine. Research It is strongly recommended that trainees undertake a significant research project during their training in order to understand and apply appropriate research methodologies in laboratory and clinical settings and to become actively involved in research activities including QA. Trainees should become actively involved in research activities including QA. Experience should be gained in: study design; literature research and review; writing submissions for grant funding and ethics committee approval; data collection; storage and analysis; and computer programme evaluation for results analysis, statistics and graphs. Success in these activities is demonstrated by publication or presentation of a significant project at a national or international meeting. Training Sites Sites which have programs of core advanced training in respiratory medicine must be able to provide a program which meets the guidelines for core training, and meets the site accreditation criteria. (The requirement to satisfy the accreditation criteria will commence after the criteria are finalised). Further information concerning accredited sites is available from the Training Section of the College office in Australia or the College office in New Zealand, and will become available on the College website. << Respiratory Medicine previous [ Table of Contents ]

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