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A sleep disorders training program for medical professionals (Abstract)* * Transtornos do sono: o programa de um curso de capacitação para profissionais médicos (Resumo). Dissertação de Mestrado, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública (Escuela Nacional de Salud Publica), Havana, Cuba. (Área: Educação Médica). Orientador: Ramón Salas Perea; co-orientador, Rubens Reimão. Assessor em Cuba: Ramón Aneiros Riba (in memoriam). ** Address: José Mol M.D., Rua Jequitibá 732, Bairro Horto, 35160-306 Ipatinga MG, Brasil. E-mail: drjmol@terra.com.br . Dissertation, Havana, Cuba , 2004
José Mól** * Transtornos do sono: o programa de um curso de capacitação para profissionais médicos (Resumo). Dissertação de Mestrado, Escola Nacional de Saúde Pública (Escuela Nacional de Salud Publica), Havana, Cuba. (Área: Educação Médica). Orientador: Ramón Salas Perea; co-orientador, Rubens Reimão. Assessor em Cuba: Ramón Aneiros Riba (in memoriam). ** Address: José Mol M.D., Rua Jequitibá 732, Bairro Horto, 35160-306 Ipatinga MG, Brasil. E-mail: drjmol@terra.com.br
In Minas Gerais steel valley, one of the main Brazilian iron minig fields, large industrial plants as USIMINAS, ACESITA and CENIBRA are located. These large plants together with smaller ones have a grater part of their workers in shift work. We know that the night worker is particularly exposed to sleep difficulties, with a two to five times higher chance of sleeping during workhours than the that of the daytime worker.
Sleep disorders lead to higher risk to the individual worker as well as to those who work with him. Sleep impairment means health hazard and also increased traffic safety risk.There are already 88 sleep disorders coded and described in the International Classification of Sleep Disorders. Our concern of how these sleep disorders patients are treated lead this research in order to identify the learning needs of practicing physicians about sleep and sleep disorders.
In most Medical school graduation curricula, time dedicated to sleep disorders is not enough or this subject have not yet been included. A total of 120 physicians from the steel valley region were evaluated with standardized questionnaire in order to detect their learning needs regarding sleep disorders.
The results allowed us to design a sleep disorders program to enable medical professionals to diagnose and manage sleep disorders.
Key words: sleep, sleep disorders, medical learning, shift work.
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