Sleep Medicine Fellowship
Goals of the Program
- Expansion of the Fellow’s fund of knowledge of Sleep Medicine including clinical presentation, diagnosis and management of common pulmonary disorders in outpatients and hospitalized patients.
- Ability to gather and organize the data necessary to generate a problem-oriented differential diagnosis and plan of management.
- Develop ability to be an effective consultant in sleep medicine with the ability to work cooperatively with other consultants for optimal patient care.
- Develop the ability to accurately score and interpret sleep studies including diagnostic polysomnography, positive pressure titration polysomnography, multiple sleep latency tests and maintenance of wakefulness tests.
- Develop the ability to be an effective leader of the multidisciplinary sleep team.
- Develop the communication skills and caring attitude necessary to effectively interact with patients and families.
Program Experience
- The Sleep Fellowship is a one-year program encompassing both clinical experience and research.
- Fellows will spend six months rotating at Harper University Hospital/University Health Center and six months at the John D. Dingell VAMC. Fellows also spend 12 weeks attending a pediatric sleep clinic at the Children’s Hospital of Michigan.
- Fellows are responsible for the primary reading/interpreting of all sleep studies, encompassing diagnotic polysomnograpy, positive pressure titration studies and multiple sleep latency tests. Fellows individually read over 200 sleep studies during the course of the program.
Application Information
- Please contact the sleep fellowship coordinator, Marion Lindsey, for an application. She can be reached by phone at (313) 745-6033.
- Completed applications will include a personal statement, CV, and three letters of reference, including one that must be from the residency or fellowship director.