MUSM Pediatric Advancement Speakers’ Series
Rural Pediatric Case Study-Sleep Medicine: Bridging Gaps in Care for Sleep Challenges
1. Describe normal sleep in children across development, consequences of poor sleep and common sleep disorders in pediatric populations.
2. List several objective and self-report methods to assess pediatric sleep.
3. Understand how behavioral treatment strategies can be used to improve bedtime problems and night wakings in young children and address insomnia and delayed sleep-wake phase disorder in school-age children and adolescents.
4. Identify ways by which to provide care for patients challenged with correlations between sleep deprivation and behavioral development.