The Board of Registered Polysomnographic Technologists (BRPT) maintains credentialing for polysomnographic technologists. It offers two credentials, the registered and certified polysomnographic technologist credentials (the RPSGT and the CPSGT). The BRPT is located at: 8400 Westport Drive, 2nd Floor, McLean, Virginia

McLean, Virginia

McLean is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fairfax County in Northern Virginia. The community had a total population of 48,115 as of the 2010 census....

  22102. The BRPT was established in 1978 and offered the first RPSGT exam in 1979.

Tasks of the BRPT

One of the main tasks of the BRPT is the admnistration of the RPSGT and CPSGT exams. Although other credentialing options now exist, the RPSGT credential was the only one in existence for many years. The actual testing for these exams is done at Pearson Vue

Pearson VUE

Pearson VUE is an electronic testing company owned by British media company Pearson PLC. Founded in 1994 by E. Clarke Porter as Virtual University Enterprises, the company now operates in 165 countries with more than 5,000 authorized test centres ....

 testing centers. For more information about these credentials, please see the polysomnographic technician article.

The BRPT, through its website, conducts much other work. Those holding the RPSGT and CPSGT credential must obtain continuing education credits (CECs) to maintain their status, although the RPSGT holders may opt to retest rather than earn CECs. The BRPT website allows the credential holders to enter info on the CECs they earn and this enables the BRPT to evaluate and renew the RPSGT credential. The BRPT offers no or very few CECs. Organizations that provide large numbers of CECs include the American Association of Sleep Technologists

American Association of Sleep Technologists

The American Association of Sleep Technologists is an organization that promotes the interests of sleep technologists. It promotes standardized education for sleep technicians, sleep technologists and sleep center managers. It spends resources defending the profession of sleep technology from...

 (AAST) and the American Association for Respiratory Care

American Association for Respiratory Care

The American Association for Respiratory Care is a non profit organization and is currently the only professional organization supporting Respiratory Care in the United States. In addition to attempting to help lobby for beneficial legislation nationally and locally, the AARC is trying to promote...

 (AARC).

The BRPT website also provides job and career information and it maintains a list of accredited accredited polysomnography programs.

Accreditation of the BRRT

The BRPT is a member of the Institution for Credentialing Excellence (ICE). The RPSGT credential is accredited by the National Commission for Certifying Agencies (NCCA).

Online forums where BRPT is discussed

In addition to the BRPT being discussed on the AAST website, two other organizations have online forums concerning the BRPT. Binary Sleep has a forum in which issues revolving around the BRPT are discussed. Sleepnet.com is a website that has discussions concerning the RPSGT exam on its Tech Forums.