Course Content
This course consists of ten online learning units supported by two online clinical workshop days. Each unit lasts 1-2 weeks and is tutored by a designated specialist. Through online learning with weekly units and two online clinical workshop days the following key areas are covered:
- Diagnosis of diabetes
- Diabetes control & monitoring; self-management education
- Structured diabetes care
- Lifestyle modification
- Therapeutics of diabetes—glucose-lowering agents
- Therapeutics of diabetes—insulin
- Acute complications of diabetes; driving and travel for patients with diabetes
- Preventing cardiovascular disease in diabetes
- Preventing diabetic eye, kidney and foot disease
- Diabetes and pregnancy.
The workshops are specialist-led and a key component of each workshop are case based discussions. The workshops include:
- Lifestyle and diabetes
- Obesity
- The diabetic foot
- Therapeutics in diabetes, monitoring devices, blood pressure management in diabetes, diabetic emergencies, insulin and pumps
- Behaviour change in chronic diseases
- Diabetes cycle of care, practice IT system support
