Introduction to Sleep Medicine and Methodological Approaches

In this module, you will gain an understanding of sleep medicine as a developing interdisciplinary specialty area, and learn how to adapt and further develop your generic clinical assessment skills.

This module will aim to enable students:

• To gain an understanding of sleep medicine as a developing, interdisciplinary specialty area
• To adapt and further develop your generic clinical assessment skills for working in the field of sleep medicine
• To develop your knowledge of sleep diagnostic systems, criteria and how to apply them
• To develop your knowledge and skills relating to subjective and objective sleep appraisal, including their selection, appropriate uses, scoring and interpretation
• To understand measurement constructs such as validity, reliability, sensitivity and specificity as applied to the practical evaluation of patients with sleep disorders
• To develop your knowledge and evaluative skills of emerging technologies in sleep medicine

This module usually takes place November-January (of Year 1 for MSC/PGDip students)