The American Board of Internal Medicine announces an Added Qualifications Examination in Sleep Medicine. This examination will take the place of the exam offered by the American Board of Sleep Medicine.
The American Board of Internal Medicine, along with the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology, the American Board of Pediatrics, and the American Board of Otolaryngology, was recently authorized by the American Board of Medical Specialties to offer an Added Qualifications Examination in Sleep Medicine. Representatives from all four Boards will be developing and setting standards for the new examination. ABIM has administrative responsibility for examination development, and the participating/sponsoring boards have responsibility for setting admission criteria for their own diplomates. The examination will be open to diplomates in internal medicine, pediatrics, neurology, psychiatry, or otolaryngology.
The first examination will be administered in fall 2007. Admission requirements for ABIM candidates are being finalized, and confirmed information about the requirements will be available by the fall of 2006.
The Training Pathway for ABIM candidates will require 12 months of satisfactorily completed sleep medicine fellowship training. Sleep medicine fellowship training undertaken July 1, 2009, and thereafter must be accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Sleep medicine training undertaken prior to July 1, 2009, must be conducted within a program affiliated with an ACGME-accredited internal medicine or pulmonary disease fellowship program. A Practice Pathway will be available for the first three examinations in 2007, 2009, and 2011. ABIM candidates who have not had formal sleep medicine fellowship training will be eligible to apply through this pathway by documenting certification by the American Board of Sleep Medicine (ABSM) or by documenting the equivalent of 12 months of full-time post-training experience providing clinical care in sleep medicine accumulated over a maximum period of five years prior to application for examination.
Under the old system, most doctors became sleep specialists by completing a residency in any speciality and then completing a fellowship (usually 1 year) in sleep medicine and then taking the examination offered by the American Board of Sleep Medicine.
Those of us who are diplomates of the American Board of Sleep Medicine are now going to have to pay a lot of money (probably $1000 to $2000) to take the new exams. Sleep specialists who are not boarded in psychiatry, pediatrics, neurology, internal medicine or ENT will be left out in the cold. I know several sleep specialists who are boarded in family practice and sleep medicine who will not be able to take the new boards.
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I guess the question is this: do these changes appear to serve any real purpose, or is it just another turf battle?
If so, are there really any sleep specialists who need to protect their turf? The ones I know all have ponderous waiting lists.
Great question, I will answer it as a regular post on sleepdoctor. By the way, I have added The Corpus Callosum to the links on my other blog, "Rebel Doctor".
Hi there, I'm doing some research on sleep aids for children and came accross this post. Enjoyable read, see you again
Scientific approach is just an alternate approach to study or cure Sleep disorders.
But we have to admit that what we know is just a quite small piece of what we totally don't know.
So sometimes the best way to cure sleep disorders is to use those methods popular among grassroots or something most people think it's mysterious.
When Yoga was not known yet, it's what i meant this so-called mysterious therapy.
Then what else, in addition to Yoga and Qigong, are helping ppl fighting sleep disorders?
Exploration counts. Exploration, to some extent, is much more important than study. It's information and realty collecting process.
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