| This fall, the Tufts University School of Dental Medicine implemented the first university level postgraduate program in Dental Sleep Medicine. The program aims to provide high-quality patient care, strong teaching, and a broad clinical exposure to the discipline via didactic, information teaching sessions along with direct patient contact.
Residents are expected to participate in patient assessment; polysomnogram interpretation; selection, fitting, and adjustment of appropriate appliances for treating sleep disordered breathing; use of ambulatory sleep study monitors during the titration of oral appliances; and to demonstrate an understanding of the potential limitations and complications of dental devices.
“Tufts’ pregraduate dental students have had DSM course content for several years,” said Leopoldo P. Correa, BDS, course director of the Dental Sleep Medicine Section at Tufts Dental School. “Some of our students choose to incorporate DSM into their practices upon graduation while other students leave Tufts with a better idea of how to identify patients who may have OSA and who should get tested at a sleep center. By offering a postgraduate course, in addition to the course content in our pregraduate and continuing education programs, more students will gain the skills and in-depth experience they need to integrate DSM into their practices.”
The program will be coordinateed through the Craniofacial Pain Center, Department of General Dentistry. |
