Overview
The University of Washington Sleep Medicine Fellowship Program offers an ACGME accredited clinical fellowship.
This is a multi-disciplinary program involving faculty from:
- Pulmonary Medicine
- Neurology
- Psychiatry
- Otolaryngology
- Dentistry
- Pediatrics
- Internal Medicine
Applications are accepted from candidates who are board eligible in internal medicine, neurology, psychiatry, otolaryngology, pediatrics, family medicine, or anesthesiology.
The goal of the UW Sleep Medicine Fellowship program is to provide outstanding multidisciplinary clinical training in the context of a one-year fellowship to candidates with high academic potential. Additionally, the program aims to provide training and experience in scholarly activities (teaching and/or research) in order to stimulate interest in life-long learning and academic medicine as a career.
The primary training site is the UW Medicine Sleep Center located at Harborview Medical Center.
Additional training sites include:
- University of Washington Medical Center
- Veterans Administration Puget Sound
- Seattle Children's Hospital Sleep Center
Curriculum
The fellowship provides comprehensive sleep medicine training experience integrated across four unique practice sites.
Sleep fellows will gain diverse training, including:
- General sleep clinics
- Pediatric sleep medicine (clinics and polysomnographic interpretation)
- Behavioral sleep medicine
- Inpatient sleep medicine consultation
- Supervised sleep study interpretation
- Training in technical aspects of polysomnography and scoring
- Sleep-otolaryngology clinics
- Sleep dentistry clinics
- Scholarly activity
There are three distinct training tracks available:
- General Seep Medicine Track: Provides training in both adult and pediatric populations.
- Pediatric-Enhanced Track: Offers additional focus on pediatric population.
- Otolaryngology-Enhanced Track: Offers additional focus on sleep surgery.
Aims
- Recruit strong clinicians with diverse backgrounds and diverse interests in sleep medicine including education, research, leadership, advocacy, and community service
- Provide a safe, supportive, and diverse training environment
- Provide high-quality teaching and clinical experience across the spectrum of sleep disorders in diverse patient populations
- Develop skills in scholarly investigation and teaching while advancing individual interests