Sleep Medicine Milestones 2.0: designed for our field

Brynn K Dredla; Laura Edgar; Hala Samman; Kanika Bagai; Ricky Mohon; Roneil Malkani; Kathleen Doo; Michelle Zeidler; Ian Weir; Vishesh Kapur; Anita Valanju Shelgikar

doi:10.5664/jcsm.8962

Sleep Medicine Milestones 2.0: designed for our field

J Clin Sleep Med. 2021 Mar 1;17(3):499-503. doi: 10.5664/jcsm.8962.

Authors

Brynn K Dredla¹, Laura Edgar², Hala Samman³, Kanika Bagai⁴, Ricky Mohon⁵, Roneil Malkani⁶, Kathleen Doo⁷, Michelle Zeidler⁸, Ian Weir⁹, Vishesh Kapur¹⁰, Anita Valanju Shelgikar¹¹

Affiliations

¹ Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Sleep Medicine, Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida.
² Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education, Chicago, Illinois.
³ Sleep Medicine Department, Phelps Health, Rolla, Missouri.
⁴ Department of Neurology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
⁵ Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado.
⁶ Department of Neurology, Center for Circadian and Sleep Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
⁷ Department of Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, California.
⁸ David Geffen School of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
⁹ Norwalk Hospital Sleep Disorder Center, Nuvance Health, Norwalk, Connecticut.
¹⁰ Division of Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
¹¹ Sleep Disorders Center, Department of Neurology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Abstract

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education published the first sleep medicine milestones in 2015. However, these milestones were the same among all internal medicine fellowship programs; they were not specific to the specialty. Based on stakeholder feedback, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education called for the creation of specialty-specific milestones. Herein, we outline the history of Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education reporting milestones; the identification of knowledge, skills, and attitudes that define the practice of sleep medicine; and the creation of the supplemental guide and sleep medicine-specific milestones (Sleep Medicine Milestones 2.0) to assess developmental progression during fellowship training.

Keywords: competency-based education; fellowship; milestones; sleep medicine.

MeSH terms

Accreditation
Clinical Competence*
Education, Medical, Graduate
Fellowships and Scholarships
Humans
Internship and Residency*
Sleep