Course Highlights
Course Director: Dr. Ambrish Mithal, Chairman, Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes, PAN MAX
Course Co-Director: Ms. Shubhda Bhanot, Chief Diabetes Educator, Max Healthcare
Course Duration: 4 months
3 months of theory and 1 month of Internship
Mode: Blended learning
share your resume at rohit.dubey@maxhealthcare.com
Course Objective
India has no structured training course available to educate and train nutritionists and registered dieticians as diabetes educators.Diabetes education is a dynamic and changing field and diabetes educators need to respond to changes in practice. Their role is crucial in managing a diseasewhere the primary care provider is the patient. More needs to be done, to meet growing demand.
Learning Outcomes of the Course
The course will help the candidate gain in depth knowledge, skills and competencies to effectively educate people with diabetes or prediabetes and their care givers to manage their diabetes well and prevent complications. It will help them empower people with diabetes and teach them about diet, physical activity,medications,insulin,complications, monitoring and other survival skills needed to control diabetes on a daily basis.
Who can Enroll
M.Sc. Nutrition, PG nutrition
Work experience: Not mandatory
Course Content
- Teaching and learning process
- Behaviour modification
- Pathophysiology of diabetes and its types
- Oral diabetes Drugs
- Insulin introduction
- Insulin technique (FIT, Exam and certification )
- Hypoglycaemia
- SMBG
- CGMS
- Insulin pump workshop ( EXAM and certification )
- Acute complications of Diabetes
- Macro Vascular complications
- Diabetes Kidney disease (Nephropathy)
- Retinopathy
- Diabetes and foot (Neuropathy )
- MNT in Diabetes
- Gestational Diabetes
- Type 1 Diabetes
- Carb counting
- Physical activity in Diabetes
Evaluations and Grading
- 2 Workshops - exams post evaluation followed by a certificate of particiaption
- Weekly presentations- evaluation based
- Group activity- evaluation based
- Written evaluation at the end of internship.
Certification
Successful candidates will be awarded a certificate by Max Institute of Medical Education.