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Category: Education


State of Diabetes Self-Management Education in the European Union Member States and Non-EU Countries: The Diabetes Literacy Project

April 17th 2018

Variation in availability and organization of DSME in the EU MS presents a clear rationale for developing an EU-wide diabetes strategy to improve treatment and care for people with diabetes (Journal of Diabetes Research)

Categories: Education, News
Tags: Europe

Categories: Education
Tags: Europe

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April 12th 2018

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Categories: Education
Tags: App

The Use of Language in Diabetes Care and Education

November 22nd 2017

This article provides recommendations for language used by health care professionals and others when discussing diabetes through spoken or written words—whether directed to people with diabetes, colleagues, or the general public, as well as research questions related to language and diabetes (Diabetes Care)

Categories: Education, News
Tags: language

Categories: Education
Tags: language

Improvement of Insulin Injection Technique

April 5th 2017

Examination of Current Issues and Recommendations (Diabetes Educator)

Categories: Education, News
Tags: insulin

Categories: Education
Tags: insulin

Deficiencies in postgraduate training for healthcare professionals who provide diabetes education and support: results from the Diabetes Attitudes, Wishes and Needs (DAWN2) study

February 13th 2017

The present study shows that healthcare professionals report being insufficiently equipped to provide diabetes self-management education, including emotional and psychological aspects of diabetes, and many are not receiving postgraduate training in any part (including medical care) of the management of diabetes. It is paramount that those responsible for the continuing professional development of healthcare professionals address this skills gap (Diabetic Medicine)

Categories: Education, News
Tags: DAWN2

Categories: Education
Tags: DAWN2

An Elective Course to Train Student Pharmacists to Deliver a Community-based Group Diabetes Prevention Program

October 3rd 2016

A diabetes prevention elective course improved students’ confidence in their ability to teach a diabetes prevention program (American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education)

Categories: Education, News
Tags: pharmacist

Categories: Education
Tags: pharmacist

Below the Surface

September 5th 2016

Below the Surface is an online campaign (Videos)  which aims to shine a spotlight on the reality of hypoglycaemia (hypos) for people living with diabetes (Novo Nordisk)

Categories: Education, News
Tags: videos

Categories: Education
Tags: videos

Improving Type 2 Diabetes Patient Health Outcomes with Individualized Continuing Medical Education for Primary Care

June 7th 2016

CME is an effective tool to close established practice gaps and potentially help improve patient health outcomes  (Diabetes Therapy)

Categories: Education, News
Tags: CME, Type 2 Diabetes

Categories: Education
Tags: CME, Type 2 Diabetes

Type 2 Diabetes: Why We Are Winning the Battle but Losing the War?

April 24th 2016

2015 Kelly West Award Lecture  (Diabetes Care)

Categories: Education, News
Tags: Type 2 Diabetes

Categories: Education
Tags: Type 2 Diabetes

Are there long-term benefits of experiential, interprofessional education for non-specialists on clinical behaviours and outcomes in diabetes care? A cohort study

January 11th 2016

An experiential, interprofessional intervention can result in significant improvements in quality outcomes in association with a sustained impact on behaviours and practices (BMJ Open)

Categories: Education, News
Tags: interprofessional

Categories: Education
Tags: interprofessional

Standards of Medical Care in Diabetes

December 24th 2015

ADA Clinical Practice Recommendations are based on a complete review of the relevant literature by a diverse group of highly trained clinicians and researchers. After weighing the quality of evidence, from rigorous double-blind clinical trials to expert opinion, recommendations are drafted, reviewed, and submitted for approval to the ADA Executive Committee; they are then revised on a regular basis, and subsequently published in Diabetes Care (American Diabetes Association)

Categories: Education, News

Categories: Education

Towards an inpatient diabetes curriculum: medical student-generated aims, objectives and methods for ward-based learning of non-critical, non-perioperative inpatient diabetes care

December 7th 2015

This is the first known publication of content that could be used in a ward-based inpatient diabetes curriculum (Diabetic Medicine)

Categories: Education, News
Tags: curriculum, inpatient, medical student

Categories: Education
Tags: curriculum, inpatient, medical student

Glycemic Index, Glycemic Load and Glycemic Response: an International Scientific Consensus Summit

May 20th 2015

Given the high prevalence of diabetes and pre-diabetes worldwide and the consistency of the scientific evidence reviewed, the expert panel confirmed an urgent need to communicate information on GI/GL to the general public and health professionals, through channels such as national dietary guidelines, food composition tables and food labels (NMCD)

Categories: Education, News
Tags: glycemic Index, glycemic load

Categories: Education
Tags: glycemic Index, glycemic load

Diabetes self-management education: acceptability of using trained lay educators

November 17th 2014

Positive perceptions about the use of lay educators support the positive quantitative findings from the main trial. Acceptability is an important consideration in relation to implementation of the model of delivery studied. Concerns raised within the interviews should be considered in the design of training for lay educators (Postgraduate Medical Journal)

Categories: Education, News

Categories: Education

The Diabetic Foot

October 1st 2014

A new book review on Glycosmedia

Categories: Education, News

Categories: Education

Relationships between patient activation, disease-specific knowledge and health outcomes among people with diabetes; a survey study

September 24th 2014

Among people with diabetes, patient activation level was especially related to disease-specific knowledge and less with health-related behavior and outcomes. The PAM might therefore especially be an useful instrument for clinical practice to identify patients most in need for diabetes education (BMC Health Services Research)

Categories: Education, News

Categories: Education

Education and technology used to improve the quality of life for people with diabetes mellitus type II

August 12th 2014

Findings suggest the importance of the role of care providers in emphasizing the implications of poor self-management strategies; that a multidisciplinary approach may enhance the education process; and a need for further developments in technology to address DMT2 self-management strategies (Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare)

Categories: Education, News

Categories: Education

Use of clinical targets in diabetes patient education: qualitative analysis of the expectations and impact of a structured self-management programme T1D

February 5th 2014

Specific and measurable low HbA1c targets may be desirable for reducing the risk of complications in diabetes, but they are not attainable or realistic even for most graduates from the Dose Adjustment for Normal Eating programme. It is suggested that setting goals without information about how achievable they really are could be counterproductive in terms of supporting and maintaining patient self-efficacy long-term (Diabetic Medicine)

Categories: Education, News

Categories: Education

The use of social media among health care professionals within an online postgraduate diabetes diploma course

January 29th 2014

This study reveals a successful uptake and communication of a professional message to a wider audience through Twitter and YouTube among social media-naïve HCPs studying for a postgraduate diploma in diabetes. Despite initial apprehension, HCPs felt confident in using social media to convey the message with continuing use of social media beyond the confines of the course (Practical Diabetes)

Categories: Education, News

Categories: Education

What happens when patients know more than their doctors?

December 11th 2013

Patients who have in-depth knowledge of their condition encounter problems when their expertise is seen as inappropriate in standard healthcare interactions, and expertise taught to patients in one branch of medicine can be considered non-compliant by those who are not specialists in that field (BMJ Open)

Categories: Education, News

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