American Sleep Medicine Foundation Educational Projects Award

American Sleep Medicine Foundation Educational Projects Award Number of Awards: Up to 2 Supported by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Amount: $75,000 The American Sleep Medicine Foundation offers the Educational Projects Award to help improve awareness about sleep and its disorders to both the public and all levels of the health care provider and physician training/continuing education continuum. The ASMF is committed to promoting awareness of sleep and its disorders through educational grants. It has been shown in numerous surveys and studies that education regarding sleep and sleep disorders is suboptimal in both medical school curricula and residency training programs. Despite the ACGME’s mandate that all residency programs include instruction on sleep and fatigue training, few devote more than one lecture per year to this topic. Following GME training, a physician’s education is typically through CME courses. Despite the growing understanding of sleep disorders and the increasing awareness of these conditions in clinical practice, few of these courses provide sufficient information about sleep medicine. Lack of a basic knowledge regarding sleep may diminish a physician’s ability to recognize the signs and symptoms of sleep disorders, understand their potential effect on health, quality of life or exacerbation of other co-morbid conditions, order appropriate diagnostic testing, or initiate adequate therapeutic plans. Studies ...
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