Sleep Medicine

Electives in Sleep Medicine

Four-week clinical electives are available for residents and fellows interested in Sleep Medicine.
These electives will provide exposure to the common problems seen in sleep medicine.
These rotations are composed primarily of outpatient clinics in Sleep Medicine as well as limited exposure to sleep laboratory studies and their interpretation.

Sleep Medicine Rotation

This is a clinical and laboratory based rotation with rare need to assess inpatients at the direction of one of the sleep physicians. Residents from multiple disciplines can attend: Respirology, Neurology, Pain Medicine and Psychiatry.

Coordinator: Dr. Alia Kashgari

Duration: The Sleep rotation is one block long. Respirology residents are required to complete 2 blocks during their 2 year fellowship.

Training sites:

The programs clinics are located at London Health Science Centre (LHSC)- Victoria Hospital (VH) E tower 5^th floor.

LHSC-University Hospital for the NIV clinics 4th floor

For pediatric clinics location, please contact Dr. St-Lauren

St Joseph hospital for ENT electives

The Sleep and Apnea Assessment Unit is located at LHSC- VH, E tower 4^th floor.

Teaching faculty:

Faculty / Staff	Role in the program
Dr. Alia Kashgari, MBBS, FRCPC Respirology and Adult Sleep Medicine	Program Director/ RPC chair Adult Sleep / Respirology
Dr. William Reisman, MD, FRCPC Respirology and Adult Sleep Medicine	Faculty Adult Sleep/ Respirology (RPC member)
Dr. Heather Racz, MD, FRCPC	Faculty Adult Sleep / Respirology
Dr. Mithu Sen, MD, FRCPC	Faculty Adult Sleep/ Respirology
Dr. Jennifer Bar, MD, FRCPC	Faculty/psychiatry
Dr. Aaron St-Lauren MD, FRCPC	Faculty/ RPC member Pediatric Sleep and Respirology

Dr. Brian Rotenberg	Faculty/ ENT and surgical rotation

Clinical Services:

The patient volume allows for adequate exposure to the breadth of sleep disorders.

Perioperative consultations: for the bariatric patients and for inpatients who are recovering or undergoing urgent or elective surgical procedures.

Sleep laboratory: There is a 9 bed facility that provides level-1 sleep studies. All under the supervision of a qualified polysomonographic technologist.

Access to the American Academy of Sleep Medicine Interscorer Reliability module.

Inpatient consultations: Consultations services to a variety of sleep conditions. Eg OSA, OHS and nocturnal ventilation start-ups.

Educational Curriculum:

Journal Club, RC accredited, Quarterly meeting discussing updates in sleep practices.

Bi-weekly educational curriculum to cover all the sleep disorders in the ICSD-3

Monthly RC accredited sleep rounds, attended by ENT, neurology, dental, psychiatry services.

Residents Evaluations:

In-Training Evaluation Report (ITER), rotation specific ITERS must be filled out at the end of each rotation.

Program Evaluations:

The fellows anonymously fill out faculty and rotaiton evaluations.