Welcome to the Current Topics in Sleep Medicine from the University of Pennsylvania curriculum. Research demonstrates that sleep disorders are significantly under-diagnosed and under-treated worldwide. Sleep disorders have now been clearly linked as a contributing risk factor to many other life-threatening diseases and conditions. Physicians’ lack of knowledge in the area of sleep medicine is one of the contributing factors to this public health problem. This global gap in sleep medicine knowledge directly affects physicians in a variety of settings, impacting their ability to recognize and treat sleep disorders in their patients. Consequently, patient needs continue to go unmet, which significantly impacts quality of life issues as well as mortality and morbidity rates. The purpose of this educational activity is to increase the number of physicians and other allied health professionals with the knowledge and skills to diagnose and treat sleep disorders. This modular, web-based, on-demand curriculum will provide a series of up-to-date courses on core topics and clinical cases in sleep medicine from leading experts in the Division of Sleep Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. CME/CE credit will be awarded upon completion of each course in the series.

Curriculum Outline