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- Sleep medicine education is often limited in medical training, prompting a study to assess knowledge levels among health professions trainees and evaluate the effectiveness of a two-day sleep medicine boot camp.
- Participants included 21 trainees, including sleep medicine fellows, who took two validated questionnaires before and after the course, showing a significant improvement in sleep knowledge scores post-training.
- Results indicated that the trainees had a higher knowledge baseline than expected, and the boot camp effectively enhanced their understanding of sleep medicine, demonstrating its value in medical education.
Article Abstract
Study Objectives: Despite increasing recognition of its importance, sleep medicine education remains limited during medical training. We sought to assess the baseline knowledge of a group of health professions trainees and to determine whether an educational sleep medicine "boot camp" led to improvement in sleep medicine knowledge.
Methods: Participants attended a 2-day introduction to sleep medicine course designed for new sleep medicine fellows in July 2017 and 2018. Participants completed 2 validated sleep knowledge questionnaires (The Assessment of Sleep Knowledge in Medical Education and The Dartmouth Sleep Knowledge and Attitude Survey) prior to and at the conclusion of the course.
Results: A total of 21 health professions trainees including 14 sleep medicine fellows completed both presurveys and postsurveys. Baseline Assessment of Sleep Knowledge in Medical Education Survey score was 21.4 ± 3.4 out of 30 (71.4% ± 11.4%) and baseline Dartmouth Sleep Knowledge and Attitude Survey score was 16.1 ± 2.4 out of 24 (67.3% ± 9.9%). There was no difference in baseline scores between sleep medicine fellows and other health professions trainees. There was a statistically significant improvement in the Assessment of Sleep Knowledge in Medical Education Survey (2.9 ± 2.1 points, = .004) and Dartmouth Sleep Knowledge and Attitude Survey (2.5 ± 3.0 points, = .001) scores among all participants after the course, without a difference in degree of improvement among sleep medicine fellows compared to other health professions trainees.
Conclusions: Our findings suggest that baseline sleep medicine knowledge is higher than previously reported among health professions trainees. An educational sleep medicine boot camp improved knowledge even in a group of learners with high baseline knowledge and interest in sleep medicine, including new sleep medicine fellows.
Citation: Wappel SR, Scharf SM, Cohen L, et al. Improving sleep medicine education among health profession trainees. . 2021;17(12):2461-2466.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8726372 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.5664/jcsm.9456 | DOI Listing |
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