Sleep Medicine (Taught)

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PGDip
As a student on the PGDip in Sleep Medicine, you will spend two years engaging in a comprehensive taught programme covering the physiology of sleep, through to clinical practice and societal implications.

Delivery of this course is mostly online, with a one-week residential component. You will engage in real time with classmates and teaching faculty. You may also wish to consider the related two-year MSc in Sleep Medicine.

Structure and content
The PGDip is a part-time course, spread over two years. During that time you will complete eight modules, providing a comprehensive overview of sleep medicine that is in line with the European Sleep Research Society's teaching and training guidelines. These modules include:

• The Physiological Basis of Sleep

• Introduction to Sleep Medicine and Methodological Approaches

• Circadian Rhythm Disruption and Sleep

• Insomnias

• Sleep Disordered Breathing and Sleep-related Movement Disorders

• Hypersomnias and Parasomnias

• Sleep in Specialist Populations

• Sleep and Society.

The course is designed to give as much flexibility as possible, whilst still providing necessary support and community. Lectures are pre-recorded and sent for you to watch in your own time, alongside any relevant reading, case studies and activities.

You will join discussion groups; these are run using conferencing software, allowing you to interact in real-time with classmates and teaching faculty and will typically last 90 minutes. For these sessions you will be expected to prepare short essays and/or presentations for discussion. You will also be expected to attend a week-long residential school in person at Oxford.

All core reading material will take the form of peer-reviewed publications, which you will have access to via the University online library, SOLO.

You will need a computer (Windows or iOS), webcam and microphone for this course. You will also need to ensure appropriate internet connection. The recommended bandwidth for the software is 1Mbps.

MSc
As a student on the MSc in Sleep Medicine, you will spend two years engaging in a comprehensive taught programme covering the physiology of sleep, through to clinical practice and societal implications.

Delivery of this course is mostly online, with a one-week residential component. You will engage in real time with classmates and teaching faculty. This will culminate in the submission of a dissertation. You may also wish to consider the related two-year PGDip in Sleep Medicine.

The MSc is a part-time course, spread over two years. During that time you will complete eight modules, providing a comprehensive overview of sleep medicine that is in line with the European Sleep Research Society's teaching and training guidelines. These modules include:

• The Physiological Basis of Sleep

• Introduction to Sleep Medicine and Methodological Approaches

• Circadian Rhythm Disruption and Sleep

• Insomnias

• Sleep Disordered Breathing and Sleep-related Movement Disorders

• Hypersomnias and Parasomnias

• Sleep in Specialist Populations

• Sleep and Society.

You will also have to complete two modules in research methods, which will support you as you work on your dissertation.