The Sleep Prescription — Course Reading

The module opens with a show of hands

Learners are asked when they last asked a cardiac patient about their sleep. In most cohorts a handful respond. It is an effective opening because the omission is universal and nobody defends it — the association between short or disrupted sleep and cardiovascular outcomes is not disputed, it is simply not acted on.

These 436 pages are the set reading that follows.

What the module covers

How to ask about sleep in a way that produces usable information rather than “fine”. What is actually modifiable — timing, light, caffeine and alcohol handled without moralising, and shift work, which affects a large proportion of learners’ own patients and many of the learners.

The apnoea module

Separate, and the most clinically consequential. Which cardiac patients should be assessed — resistant hypertension, atrial fibrillation, heart failure — and how much undiagnosed apnoea is sitting in an ordinary cardiology clinic.

Learners read it for themselves

Consistently reported and worth noting. Sleep medicine was absent from most medical curricula, and clinical work is structurally hostile to sleep.

Enrolment

All clinical tracks; no prerequisite.

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