TY - JOUR
T1 - A dozen years of American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) international mini-fellowship
T2 - Program evaluation and future directions
AU - Ioachimescu, Octavian C.
AU - Wickwire, Emerson M.
AU - Harrington, John
AU - Kristo, David
AU - Arnedt, J. Todd
AU - Ramar, Kannan
AU - Won, Christine
AU - Billings, Martha E.
AU - DelRosso, Lourdes
AU - Williams, Scott
AU - Paruthi, Shalini
AU - Morgenthaler, Timothy I.
AU - Kovacs, Katie
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - Sleep medicine remains an underrepresented medical specialty worldwide, with significant geographic disparities with regard to training, number of available sleep specialists, sleep laboratory or clinic infrastructures, and evidence-based clinical practices. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) is committed to facilitating the education of sleep medicine professionals to ensure high-quality, evidence-based clinical care and improve access to sleep centers around the world, particularly in developing countries. In 2002, the AASM launched an annual 4-week training program called Mini-Fellowship for International Scholars, designed to support the establishment of sleep medicine in developing countries. The participating fellows were generally chosen from areas that lacked a clinical infrastructure in this specialty and provided with training in AASM Accredited sleep centers. This manuscript presents an overview of the program, summarizes the outcomes, successes, and lessons learned during the first 12 years, and describes a set of programmatic changes for the near-future, as assembled and proposed by the AASM Education Committee and recently approved by the AASM Board of Directors.
AB - Sleep medicine remains an underrepresented medical specialty worldwide, with significant geographic disparities with regard to training, number of available sleep specialists, sleep laboratory or clinic infrastructures, and evidence-based clinical practices. The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) is committed to facilitating the education of sleep medicine professionals to ensure high-quality, evidence-based clinical care and improve access to sleep centers around the world, particularly in developing countries. In 2002, the AASM launched an annual 4-week training program called Mini-Fellowship for International Scholars, designed to support the establishment of sleep medicine in developing countries. The participating fellows were generally chosen from areas that lacked a clinical infrastructure in this specialty and provided with training in AASM Accredited sleep centers. This manuscript presents an overview of the program, summarizes the outcomes, successes, and lessons learned during the first 12 years, and describes a set of programmatic changes for the near-future, as assembled and proposed by the AASM Education Committee and recently approved by the AASM Board of Directors.
KW - Education
KW - Mini-fellowship for international scholars
KW - Sleep medicine
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U2 - 10.5664/jcsm.3544
DO - 10.5664/jcsm.3544
M3 - Article
C2 - 24634633
AN - SCOPUS:84897138830
SN - 1550-9389
VL - 10
SP - 331
EP - 334
JO - Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
JF - Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine
IS - 3
ER -