| Programme in Sleep Medicine (Respiratory Service) |
| Part of the Respiratory Medicine Service, the Sleep Disorders Service has a 2-bed paediatric sleep laboratory, an inpatient ambulatory sleep service and outpatient paediatric multi-disciplinary sleep consultative service. The service runs 6 - 8 nocturnal polysomnograms a week and sees about 400 outpatients a year.
Fellows on this programme will also have the opportunity to rotate to an affiliated adult sleep laboratory at the Singapore General Hospital for training. The adult laboratory is a 6-bedded facility running 20 - 30 studies a week with an outpatient service seeing 100 patients a week.
The sleep fellowship is a subspecialty training program affiliated with the Respiratory Medicine Service and administered through the Department of Paediatric Medicine. Dr Jenny Tang, Director of the Sleep Disorders Service will direct the Sleep Fellowship programme. | | |
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| Suitable Candidates |
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Physicians who qualify for Advanced Paediatric Fellowship or Paediatric Subspecialty training with a background in pulmonary medicine or neurology. | | |
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| Service and Patient Care |
| The Paediatric and Adult Sleep Disorders Service is staffed by a team of respiratory / sleep physicians with multi-disciplinary involvement including the neurologists, otolaryngologists, psychologists, psychiatrists and polysomnographers.
The service includes: |
- Full night attended digital polysomnography with ability for end tidal CO2 monitoring, video monitoring, CPAP / BiPAP titration, oxygen titration and capability to expand to include full EEG montage.
- Multiple sleep latency tests.
- Ambulatory inpatient studies.
- Inpatient and outpatient multi-disciplinary consultations.
- Education and homecare service for patients on non-invasive ventilation.
- Surgical and behavioral intervention for relevant sleep disorders.
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| The paediatric service sees children from the newborn to 18 years of age and the adult sleep service sees adolescents and adults. A wide range of disorders are seen including obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome, nocturnal alveolar hypoventilation, parasomnias, sleep association disorders, periodic limb movement disorders, narcolepsy, insomnia, REM sleep behavior disorders etc. | | |
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| Teaching |
- Didactic lectures.
- Observed / Staffed inpatient and outpatient consults with the respiratory physicians, neurologists, otolaryngologists, psychiatrists and psychologists.
- Observer / Hands-on with sleep scoring and reporting.
- Night rotations with exposure to observe and learn aspects of nocturnal polysomnograms, CPAP / BiPAP titration and oxygen titration.
- Opportunity for research exposure.
- Opportunity for observation of surgical interventions in the operating theatre.
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| One year Respiratory / Sleep Fellowship (Self Funded / Paid) or 6 Months Sleep Fellowship (Self Funded) |
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| 3 Months Fellowship (Observer- Self Funded) |
- 6 weeks paediatric and 6 weeks adult sleep service.
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| For enquiries, please email: nur@kkh.com.sg |
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