Dr. Smith is correct that there is an “urgent need to improve medical school sleep medicine education.”1 I wholeheartedly agree with the proposal by Salas et al.2 Unfortunately, although there are many… Click to show full abstract
Dr. Smith is correct that there is an “urgent need to improve medical school sleep medicine education.”1 I wholeheartedly agree with the proposal by Salas et al.2 Unfortunately, although there are many valid justifications for sleep medicine education, teaching about sleep will not improve burnout among medical students. The link between burnout and sleep is most likely due to sleep deprivation,3,4 but medical students are not sleep deprived because they lack the knowledge that they ought to sleep
               
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