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How to become a sleep doctor?
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See below: 1. Graduate from high school. 2. Graduate from college.. 3. Graduate from medical school. 4. Complete a residency in a primary (e.g., internal medicine, neurology, family practice) medical specialty. 5. Complete a fellowship program in sleep medicine.
Answered 7/24/2014
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Sleep fellowship: There are programs usually 1-2 years about sleep medicine called fellowships. Major medical universities have them. There is a medical sleep fellowship and a behavioral sleep fellowship. Medical fellowship focuses mainly on sleep disordered breathing, RLS, parasomnias. Behavioral sleep fellowships help with insomnia and mental issues relating to sleep
Answered 6/5/2016
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