39Meaning of qualified sleep medicine practitioner

39 Meaning of qualified sleep medicine practitioner

(1) For items 12203 to 12217, qualified sleep medicine practitioner means a qualified adult sleep medicine practitioner or a qualified paediatric sleep medicine practitioner.

(2) A person is a qualified adult sleep medicine practitioner or a qualified paediatric sleep medicine practitioner if:

(a) the person has been assessed by the Credentialling Subcommittee or the Appeal Committee as having had, before 1 March 1999, sufficient training and experience in the relevant field of sleep medicine to be competent in independent clinical assessment and management of patients with respiratory sleep disorders and in reporting sleep studies; or

(b) the person has been assessed by the Credentialling Subcommittee or the Appeal Committee as having had, before 1 March 1999, substantial training or experience in adult sleep medicine, but requiring further specified training or experience in the relevant field of sleep medicine to be competent in independent clinical assessment and management of patients with respiratory sleep disorders and in reporting sleep studies, and either:

(i) the period of 2 years immediately following that assessment has not expired; or

(ii) the person has been assessed by the Credentialling Subcommittee as having satisfactorily finished the further training or gained the further experience specified for that person; or

(c) the person has attained Level I or Level II of the relevant Advanced Training Program of the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand and the Australasian Sleep Association, after having completed at least 12 months core training, including clinical practice in the relevant field of sleep medicine and in reporting sleep studies; or

(d) the Advisory Committee has recognised the person, in writing, as having training equivalent to the training mentioned in paragraph (c).

(3) In this rule:

Advisory Committee means the Specialist Advisory Committee in Thoracic and Sleep Medicine of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

Appeal Committee means the Appeal Committee of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians.

Credentialling Subcommittee means the Credentialling Subcommittee of the Advisory Committee.

relevant Advanced Training Program means:

(a) in relation to an assessment for qualification as a qualified adult sleep medicine practitioner — the Advanced Training Program in Adult Sleep Medicine; and

(b) in relation to an assessment for qualification as a qualified paediatric sleep medicine practitioner — the Advanced Training Program in Paediatric Sleep Medicine.