Sleep Medicine is actually a sub-specialty of Pulmonary Medicine. So, to become a Pulmonologist/Sleep specialist, you need to have 4 years Pre-Med, 4 years Med

Sleep Medicine is actually a sub-specialty of Pulmonary Medicine. So, to become a Pulmonologist/Sleep specialist, you need to have 4 years Pre-Med, 4 years Med school, 3-4 years of Internal Medicine Residency. After that, you have to apply to become a Pulmonologist, which is rather competitive. Regardless, it's a two year fellowship in pulmonary medicine, which means that you're the defacto king of the ICU for 2 years. Sometimes, pulmonologists take an extra one year to study sleep medicine. So, on average, your sleep specialists have about 13-15 years of schooling. It's about the same ammount of time that it would take to become a Plastic surgeon, or Interventional Cardiologist, Cardiothoracic Surgeon of Invasive Radiologist. It's not a light weight course of study. Certainly not 4 hours worth.