Sleep Medicine CME

Complete your CME and MOC Requirements online with the BoardVitals Online CME + MOC Sleep Medicine Self-Assessment Activity with Free $2,500 Amazon or American Express Gift Card. Answer board-style questions and cases related to your specialty and earn credits fast!

Key features of BoardVitals Online CME + MOC Self-Assessment Activity include:

• Thousands of board-style questions and cases with evidence-based explanations for review
• Aligned with the MOC / Recertification exam content for each specialty board
• Answer questions to earn credits and correct wrong answers as you go
• Earn up to 100 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM and MOC credits (varies by specialty)
• Up to 24-month access +  a free $2,500 Amazon or American Express Gift Card (your choice!)

Target Audience: Physicians specializing in Sleep Medicine

The BoardVitals Sleep Medicine CME Review offers clinicians 45 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM, 45 ABIM MOC points, and over 700 Sleep Medicine board review questions. The questions cover key topics including movement disorders, breathing disorders, and insomnias. This question bank will assist clinicians with Sleep Medicine certification and recertification.

The BoardVitals Sleep Medicine CME Review also features:

• Quick and Convenient CME
• Computer, phone, and tablet access
• Constantly updated up-to-date questions
• Questions that are targeted specifically to the exam
• Online CME tracker
• 100% Pass Guarantee
• Statistical comparison to other Sleep Medicine test-takers (Nationally)

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After completing this activity, you should be able to:

• Make a diagnosis
• Order and interpret results
• Assess risk, determine prognosis, and apply principles from epidemiologic studies
• Describe the underlying pathophysiology of disease and basic science knowledge

Target Audience: Clinicians focusing on Sleep Medicine

Topics covered by Sleep Medicine for the Primary Care Physician include:
Insomnia, Sleep Apnea, Restless Leg Syndrome, Narcolepsy, Idiopathic Hypersomnia, Circadian Rhythm Disorders, Jet Lag, NREM Parasomnias, REM Sleep Disorders and many others.

Upon completion of Sleep Medicine for the Primary Care Physician, you will be able to:
• Describe the best clinical approach to a patient with a known or suspected sleep disorder
• Differentiate between restless leg syndrome and other movement disorders in sleep
• Analyze the causes of and treatment approaches to sleep apnea
• Explain how circadian rhythm works and how best to manage jet lag
Contrast sleep disorders specific to older patients as compared to younger adults
• Compare sleep problems in children with sleep problems in adults
• Classify REM and NREM sleep disorders
• Diagnose sleep disorders amid comorbid medical disorders
• Outline sleep disorders that occur concomitantly with psychiatric disorders

Target Audience:
Internists, Family Physicians, Geriatricians, Pediatricians, Obstetricians/Gynecologists (who act as primary care providers), Residents in Internal Medicine, Family Medicine, Pediatrics, and Obstetrics & Gynecology, Physician Assistants in Primary Care practices and Nurse Practitioners in Primary Care practices.

The BoardVitals ABIM Sleep Medicine Board Review Question Bank offers over 500 Sleep Medicine Board Review questions, covering both rare as well as clinically common sleep conditions. Hundreds of independently collected images and sleep studies are included in the Board Vitals Sleep Medicine bank.

The BoardVitals ABIM Sleep Medicine Board Review Question Bank offer the following:
• Detailed Explanations and Rationales associated with every question
• Content mapped to the Sleep Medicine Certification Examination Blueprint
• 100% Pass Guarantee
• Single best answer type Sleep Medicine questions

Target Audience: Sleep Medicine Specialists.

There are many topics covered on the site including:
• Basics of Sleep Center Management
• Clinical and Business Trends
• Intermediate Sleep Center Management
• Interpreting Sleep Studies
• Sleep Disorders in Pediatrics

Target Audience:
sleep medicine specialists, trainees in sleep medicine and all physicians with an interest in improving recognition and treatment of sleep disorders.

Insomnia is defined by the dissatisfaction of sleep quality or quantity characterized by having difficulty falling asleep, staying asleep, waking too early, or a combination of these. It is defined as chronic if the condition persists for three months, despite the opportunity for sleep or eradication of external stimulus. Insomnia affects people of all ages, though the likelihood of developing insomnia increases with age: reporting one-third of the adult population having been affected by at least one symptom of insomnia.

By the end of the session the participant will be able to:

• Describe the pathophysiology of insomnia such that it might inform treatment mechanisms
• Identify the currently available and emerging pharmacotherapeutic treatments for management of insomnia and apply them to patient cases using evidence-based medicine
• Evaluate a treatment plan for a specific patient with insomnia to optimize safety and efficacy, suggesting modifications for improvement
• Describe barriers to care associated with treating patients with insomnia

Target Audience: The following HCPs: neurologists, psychiatrists, sleep medicine specialists, and primary care physicians; physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, and pharmacists who practice in the aforementioned areas of specialty; and those who otherwise have an interest in or commonly care for or clinically encounter patients with insomnia.