Early profession registered sleep technologists are invited to use for a brand new autoscoring Gold Normal Panel that can help the AASM’s efforts to offer oversight and certify autoscoring sleep scoring packages, serving to to maneuver the sector of sleep medication ahead. The AASM Autoscoring Certification Pilot Program has ended, and the AASM is growing a Full PSG Autoscoring Certification Program. In help of this program, the AASM is forming a Gold Normal Panel and is searching for 4 early profession registered sleep technologists (impartial contractors) to hitch our present panel of seasoned technologists. Every panelist might be chargeable for stage scoring and occasion scoring 150 full PSG in a single day sleep research. The Gold Normal Panel outcomes will enable the AASM to guage the efficiency of AI scoring packages for the certification program. The panelists might be compensated for efficiently scoring every sleep examine.
Autoscoring Gold Normal Panel
The polysomnography scorer (impartial contractor) will serve on a 15-member Gold Normal Panel and manually rating 150 full-night PSG data in accordance with the present guidelines of The AASM Handbook for the Scoring of Sleep and Related Occasions. A webinar will facilitate 1:1 coaching for every panelist, and a 24/7 safe portal might be out there for distant scoring.
All data might be stage scored and occasion scored (arousal, PLM, and respiratory) in accordance with the AASM Handbook for the Scoring of Sleep and Related Occasions and the protocols organized by AASM employees to be accepted.
The scoring of the Gold Normal Panel might be in comparison with the efficiency of autoscoring software program with the intention to certify merchandise as a part of an trade engagement oversight program. This initiative will rigorously assess and certify autoscoring software program programs that analyze grownup sleep levels and occasions through in-lab polysomnograms, guaranteeing they meet our excessive requirements for accuracy and reliability.
{Qualifications} and Abilities
Registered sleep technologist (RPSGT, RST, or RRT-SDS) certification required.
Early profession (unique registry date 2020 or newer).
Lively AASM Sleep ISR scorer at time of utility. (Current Sleep ISR examination common might be used to rank candidates.)
The perfect candidate is dependable and conscious of electronic mail communication and is offered to put aside roughly 10 hours per week all through the 9-month interval Q2-This fall of 2025 with the intention to concentrate on scoring 150 data precisely.
Timeline
No less than 4 positions might be crammed in March 2025 and start scoring in April 2025. All scoring have to be accomplished by December 2025.
The Gold Normal Panel will use a free downloadable EDF viewer (e.g., Polyman) on their very own internet-connected machine to evaluation PSGs in 30-second epochs and add staging notations primarily based upon the foundations of the AASM Handbook for the Scoring of Sleep and Related Occasions.
Functions
If you’re all in favour of taking part on this new initiative, please submit a letter of curiosity alongside along with your resume/CV to aigsp@aasm.org. Chosen candidates might be invited to interview for these positions to debate the venture in additional element. Submissions might be accepted by Feb. 28, 2025.
