Conferences are held at the UCSF Fresno. All fellows are required to attend 80% of all conferences.
Sleep Medicine Lectures (Monday, 12:15pm)
Internal Medicine Grand Rounds (Tuesday, 8am)
Chest Clinical Conference (Thursday, 7:30am)
Sleep Medicine Lectures Topics
- Orientation to sleep fellowship/overview of sleep disorders
- Sleep history taking and examination
- Overview of insomnia
- Overview of obstructive sleep apnea
- Diagnostic tools for sleep disorders
- Normal Sleep
- Pediatric sleep
- Scoring Sleep Stages
- Scoring Respiratory Events
- RLS
- Narcolepsy
- Circadian rhythms
- Scoring of movement and arousals
- Overview of treatment for sleep apnea
- Principles of recording bioelectric signals/PSG, Pt 1
- Principles of recording bioelectric signals/troubleshooting
- Basic neurobiology of sleep and wakefulness
- Respiratory physiology/pathophysiology r/t sleep
- Sleep deprivation and fatigue management
- Research overview
- Central sleep apnea
- Insomnia
- Sleep Dentistry
- Narcolepsy and other disorders of excessive sleepiness
- Surgical interventions for sleep apnea
- Neonatal and Pediatric Sleep Disorders
- Effect of Medication on Sleep
- Circadian rhythm disorders
- Neurological and movement d/o and sleep
- Sleep disorders in neuromuscular disease
- Restless legs syndrome
- Chronobiology
- GI physiology and pathophysiology r/t sleep
- Parasomnias
- Interaction between psychiatric disorders and sleep disorders
- Sleep and Women’s Health
- Endocrine physiology/pathology r/t sleep
- Effect of Sleep Disorders on Cardiovascular Disease
- Impact of sleep disorders on the bed partner, family and society
- Research, QI presentations
- Financing and regulation of sleep medicine