I have answered 20 questions about the life of a sleep physician for the Student Doctor Network.
Here is a sample question and answer:
What is the best way to prepare for this specialty?
Sleep medicine is a one year fellowship after a psychiatry, neurology, ENT, family practice, pediatrics, or internal medicine residency. The best way to prepare is to do one or two sleep medicine elective months during residency. Sleep medicine is becoming a more competitive fellowship, and it is hard for someone who has only completed an internal medicine residency to get- general internists are competing with pulmonary specialists for slots. If a resident is trying to go straight from internal medicine residency to sleep fellowship (rather than doing a pulmonary fellowship first), some sleep research during residency would be helpful.
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Boy the people over at Lifehacker have a hard problem initiating sleep.
Check out this link: http://lifehacker.com/351403/hack-your-way-to-better-sleep
They spew out insomnia tips like wild banshees. They are interesting none the less.
Love this blog doc. Keep up the outstanding work over here! I gave your tips to the docs I work with who were taking the new boards this year. They loved the help.
thanks.
You have some interesting photographs and artwork on your blog
Very nice interview. I liked your response also to the comments. Honesty from someone in the medical field while refreshing to some can be very confusing to others :)
thanks, sovann pen.
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