Professional Development Articles
Updates about the annual meeting, educational events, and new resources
Attendees of Sleep Medicine Trends 2019, Feb. 15 - 17, have a unique opportunity to register for an add-on course about physician leadership on Thursday, Feb. 14. Professor Jay Conger of the Center for Effective Organizations at USC’s Marshall School of Business, a TEDx speaker [...]
The 2018 AASM Physician Compensation Survey is the largest national salary and compensation survey of sleep physicians and advanced practice providers. The final report, which includes a foreword from AASM President Dr. Douglas Kirsch, is now available online as a members only resource. The [...]
This week the Welltrinsic Sleep Network announced the launch of the Welltrinsic Sleep Wellness Program, which offers corporations, small business owners, and human resources professionals a turnkey platform to help educate employees about the importance of healthy sleep and provide tools to improve their [...]
The AASM invites qualified members to nominate themselves to be considered for positions that will be opening in 2019 on the AASM Board of Directors. There will be a minimum of 1 opening for a three-year term as an at-large member of the Board [...]
The AASM invites qualified members to nominate themselves to be considered for positions that will be opening in 2019 on the AASM Nominating Committee. There will be 1 opening for a two-year term as an at-large member of the Nominating Committee, which is responsible [...]
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine is calling for online abstract and session proposal reviewers for SLEEP 2019. Reviewer volunteers are asked to submit a CV, as well as the volunteer interest form. Session proposal reviewers must be available to review in the first [...]
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine is thrilled to present Sleep ISR, a new and improved version of the former AASM Inter-scorer Reliability assessment system. This update, which has been years in the making, contains dozens of changes that make the system [...]
The American Board of Sleep Medicine (ABSM) is now offering the option for candidates to earn the Registered Sleep Technologist (RST) credential by taking the Sleep Technologist Registry Examination as an online proctored test. Candidates will now have the option of taking the exam in a Kryterion [...]
In this recorded webinar, Dr. Virend Somers reviews both historical and recent evidence of the associations, causality and therapeutic implications of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) and cardiovascular disease. The webinar also includes a question-and-answer session with Dr. Somers, hosted by Dr. Shalini Paruthi, [...]
These articles that have been posted on the AASM website in 2018 received the most online pageviews from Jan. 1 – June 30: 1. Updated AASM Scoring Manual, Version 2.5, to be released April 2 The AASM Manual for the Scoring of Sleep and [...]