Vizcarra-Escobar Darwin, Fabián-Quillama Rosario J, Fernández-Gonzáles Yssel S
Hypnos Instituto del Sueño, Clínica San Felipe, Lima, Perú.
Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Facultad de Medicina, Lima, Perú.
J Clin Sleep Med. 2020 Jun 15;16(6):983-988. doi: 10.5664/jcsm.8422.
To describe and compare current information about sleep societies, training programs, and requirements for certification in sleep medicine across Latin America.
Online research was conducted from July-September 2019. Search terms and logic were established, including every region or territory in Latin America. Members of sleep societies were contacted to complete missing information.
There are 11 sleep societies in Latin America included in the Federation of Latin American Sleep Societies. They have varied levels of available online information. Regarding training programs, Brazil offers a sleep medicine residency and Mexico includes sleep training in the neurophysiology specialty; both countries offer sleep medicine certification. Sleep societies of Colombia and Argentina have developed their own certification processes.
There are remarkable differences in sleep society consolidation, training programs, available certification, terminology, regulatory entities, and requirements in Latin America, which may increase difficulties and obstacles for a multinational certification project.
描述并比较拉丁美洲各地有关睡眠协会、培训项目及睡眠医学认证要求的当前信息。
于2019年7月至9月进行在线研究。确定了搜索词和逻辑，涵盖拉丁美洲的每个地区或领土。联系了睡眠协会成员以补充缺失信息。
拉丁美洲睡眠协会联合会中有11个睡眠协会。它们的在线可用信息水平各不相同。关于培训项目，巴西提供睡眠医学住院医师培训，墨西哥在神经生理学专业中纳入了睡眠培训；两国均提供睡眠医学认证。哥伦比亚和阿根廷的睡眠协会已制定了各自的认证流程。
拉丁美洲在睡眠协会整合、培训项目、现有认证、术语、监管实体及要求方面存在显著差异，这可能会给跨国认证项目增加困难和障碍。
