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Review of Sleep Medicine, 1e

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I just took the Sleep Medicine Boards in Chicago and thought I'd share my opinion. This book is divided into two halves: the first half is text about neuroscience and other sleep topics; the second half is a self-test section. I found the first half to contain useful information for the boards, but the material was poorly written as dense prose and not organized the best way - there were very few diagrams, charts, and pictures. (You would expect more charts, diagrams, etc. for a "Review Book"). I had to pick my way through the dense text and take a lot of notes and make my own diagrams, charts, etc. I also had to get a separate neuroanatomy book. The first half is also skimpy on seizures, artifacts, and pediatric sleep medicine. The self-test actually contained quite a bit of information, if you read all the explanations carefully, and the format was similar to the sleep boards, (rote memorization questions, clinical questions). To study for the sleep boards, I definitely recommend using this in addition to Richard Berry's "Sleep Medicine Pearls." I also borrowed the High-Yield Neuroanatomy from the library and reviewed the pertinent sections, (you don't need to go through this entire book). Hope this helps, as there's not much information out there to help people pass the sleep boards.

I took the Boards in 99 and wish I had had something like this. It is a wonderful review of the elements of Sleep Medicine that we don't use every day but that will likely be on the test. The practice tests are especially helpful.

an absolute necessity. easy to read format with a density of information. i and others i recommended this book to were overjoyed to have had it for sleep boards part 1

I purchased this book with the intention of taking the Sleep Boards in 2009. As a practicing otolaryngologist (ENT) who used the 'Practice Pathway' to qualify for the exam, I found this book extremely helpful in condensing the basic study areas for the sleep exam. It certainly beat trying to read the entire Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine textbook. Overall, the questions here were more detailed and less straightforward than many of the exam questions. However, it obviously cannot be used as your only study material. Products from the AASM like the Scoring Manual and ICSD-9 are crucial as well. Your own experience in sleep medicine practice will determine how much you will need to prepare, including possibly taking a review course.

This book is excellent! Some of the questions, especially those pertaining to neuroanatomy and neurotransmitters, seemed quite difficult to me, coming at sleep from a pulmonary perspective, but it's a lot better to struggle during preparation than with the exam itself. Very well written and carefully edited, this book was very useful.

I purchased this book for board review purposes. I recently took the sleep boards offered by the ABIM (2009). I bought the book only 4 days before the exam, as someone highly recommended it and I wanted to do more practice questions. I would higly recommend this book! A lot of questions were straight out of this book (okay a few atleast) and the material they review is certainly worth memorizing. I wish I had bought the book sooner. However, I must say that it is not well written with a lot of unorganized thoughts so I am glad I had used other resources to study for the exam but this should certainly be a book one can use to review material. Two aspects of this book that I highly recommend are the chapters pertaining to pharmacology and sleep deprivation and its affect on various systems. Will find out soon enough if I did well enough to pass, I thought the exam was difficult but FAIR.

Hope this helps!