The STOP-BANG questionnaire was a useful tool to identify OSA during epidemiological study in S?o Paulo (Brazil)

摘要

We appreciate the study by Mindell et al. [1 ], which highlights a very limited coverage of sleep in medical school education in 12 different countries. We recently performed a similar survey in Italy, asking members of the Italian Association of Sleep Medicine how sleep medicine was taught in their Universities.We collected information from 21 of the 39 Italian universities (54%). Sleep and sleep disorders were taught in 19 of them (90%), but in medical school a mean of only 2.5 h was dedicated to sleep and its diseases throughout more than 1400 h of lessons along the six years of medical education in Italy. As far as concerns other courses of the Faculty of^Medicine, 1.8 h in the nurse school and 23.17 h in the school for neurophysiology technicians were spent in this activity. Sleep was mostly taught during the courses of Neurology (18 universities), Pneumology (three universities), Dentistry (two universities), and other medical specialties in single cases. In 13 universities sleep teaching was organized as an optional didactic activity.