Sleep medicine

Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine offers a sleep medicine elective as a two-week opportunity which is best paired with pulmonary medicine for another two weeks. The rotation is facilitated by the outpatient sleep clinic at Geisinger Medical Center in Danville, Pa., with opportunities at Geisinger Bloomsburg Hospital as well.

Goals of the rotation include:

• Understanding the effect of sleep on overall health
• Recognizing strategies to assess and treat sleep-disordered breathing
• Understanding insomnia and the appropriate treatment
• Exposure to the sleep lab to observe a daytime sleep study