Absm.org promotes study and research in the field of sleep medicine
Title
American Board of Sleep Medicine
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- The ABSM is an independent organization developed for the purpose of establishing and maintaining standards of individual proficiency in clinical polysomnography.
- The ABSM is not affiliated with the American Board of Medical Specialties but has, as a long-term goal, the hope to establish itself as a subspecialty board of sleep medicine under its auspices.
- The need for the ABSM arose from increasing recognition and awareness of the medical importance of sleep and sleep disorders in medicine. Although it was known for centuries that sleep could affect such disorders as epilepsy and asthma, the discovery of REM sleep, the discoveries of sleep apnea and periodic limb movements of sleep, and the recognition that sleep disorders could have serious medical consequences led to the development in the 1970s of clinics and laboratories devoted to the study of sleep and sleep disorders.
