• Imran S Khawaja, Patricia J Dickmann, Thomas D Hurwitz, Paul D Thuras, Robert E Feinstein, Alan B Douglass, and Elliott Kyung Lee.
• University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 4500 S Lancaster Rd, Dallas, TX 75216. khimran@yahoo.com.
• Prim Care Companion CNS Disord. 2017 Aug 31; 19 (4).

ObjectiveTo assess the current state of sleep medicine educational resources and training offered by North American psychiatry residency programs.MethodsIn June 2013, a 9-item peer-reviewed Sleep Medicine Training Survey was administered to 39 chief residents of psychiatry residency training programs during a meeting in New York.ResultsThirty-four percent of the participating programs offered an elective rotation in sleep medicine. A variety of innovative approaches for teaching sleep medicine were noted. The majority of the chief residents felt comfortable screening patients for obstructive sleep apnea (72%), half felt comfortable screening for restless legs syndrome (53%), and fewer than half were comfortable screening for other sleep disorders (47%).ConclusionsThis is the first report in the last decade to provide any analysis of current sleep medicine training in North American psychiatry residency training programs. These data indicate that sleep medicine education in psychiatry residency programs is possibly in decline.© Copyright 2017 Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc.

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