Professional Development Articles
Updates about the annual meeting, educational events, and new resources
The American Sleep Medicine Foundation (ASMF) has announced the call for applications for the 2017 Career Development Awards, which comprises the Physician Scientist Training Award, the Bridge to Success Award for Early Career Investigators, and the Bridge to Success Award for Mid-Career/Senior Investigators.
Stay on trend by attending Sleep Medicine Trends from Feb. 17-19, 2017, at the Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak Resort in Phoenix, Arizona.
The American Association of Sleep Technologists (AAST) commissioned an independent consulting firm, McKinley Advisers, to conduct a current assessment of salary and compensation for sleep technologists. The AAST 2016 Salary and Benefits Survey compares current findings with the AAST's previous salary and compensation surveys from 2007 and 2010.
In case you missed it while you were away this summer, here are the top 10 AASM headlines from June through August 2016.
In a special "Shadow Me" Q&A for AMA Wire, AASM President Dr. Ronald Chervin describes for young physicians both the realities and the unique benefits of specializing in sleep medicine.
Now available on the AASM website is the 2016 AASM Standards for Accreditation Attestation, which you can submit to show compliance with the recently updated Standards for Accreditation of sleep facilities and independent sleep practices.
The American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) is inviting public comment on a draft clinical practice guideline for the diagnostic testing of obstructive sleep apnea in adults.
An editorial by AASM Immediate Past President Dr. Nathaniel Watson describes the rationale for the new reports commissioned by the AASM to analyze the economic impact of obstructive sleep apnea and the experience of adult sleep apnea patients in the U.S.
As part of the National Healthy Sleep Awareness Project, the AASM and its partners have developed a quality measure that can be used in primary care environments to determine if appropriate risk assessment for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is being performed.
Health care is among the three industries that received negative ratings from more than half of the public in the latest edition of an annual Gallup poll, with health care ranking ahead of only the pharmaceutical industry and the federal government.