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In Dr. Smith's editorial regarding the newly suggested sleep medicine curriculum by Salas et al., the author summarizes a call to arms in order to increase trainee exposure to sleep disorders. For conditions that affect 50–70 million Americans, with tens of billions of dollars in annual healthcare costs, sleep medicine training comprises a regrettable minority of medical education (0.06% of total classroom time). A heightened awareness of sleep disorders in medical school may also indirectly benefit medical students themselves as they reflect on their own sleep practices. With better sleep hygiene, Dr. Smith postulates, students may be at a lower risk of burnout. Dr. Spector, a sleep disorders specialist, worries that enforcement of additional coursework regarding sleep hygiene is hardly a solution to the burnout problem. Encouraging students to re-evaluate their own sleep practices by mandating additional coursework would be like “rubbing salt in a wound.” Regardless of how or when formal instruction in sleep medicine is provided, everyone seems to agree that our deficiency of sleep medicine exposure should serve as a wake-up call for medical educators.
In Dr. Smith's editorial regarding the newly suggested sleep medicine curriculum by Salas et al., the author summarizes a call to arms in order to increase trainee exposure to sleep disorders. For conditions that affect 50–70 million Americans, with tens of billions of dollars in annual healthcare costs, sleep medicine training comprises a regrettable minority of medical education (0.06% of total classroom time).
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