Diabetes education and professional roles

An inter-professional education programme for diabetes care in London

Over the years there has been a steady increase in avoidable referrals from primary to secondary care for newly diagnosed diabetic patients. Audits have shown that diabetes referral rates were rising yearly. Secondary care is becoming overwhelmed with the heavy workload and increasing cost, which also led to compromising care for complex patients. This led to the design and implementation of a ...

Professional education.

Labour economics and healthcare professional education

  Healthcare professional education is the undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing professional development for doctors, nurses and allied healthcare professionals. Labour economics is the relationship between workers and employers, and the resultant effect on employment and wages.   Healthcare professional education ultimately produces a workforce, and that workforce is governed by the rule...

The future of diabetes education: expanded opportunities and roles for diabetes educators.

PURPOSE The purpose of the article is to explore challenges and opportunities associated with the state of practice for diabetes education and diabetes educators. METHODS Observations, assumptions, predictions, and recommendations based on a literature review and the 2011 workforce study and workforce summit held by the American Association of Diabetes Educators (AADE) are presented. RESULT...

Professional education: Some reflections

It was a courageous decision to found a journal in the early 1980’s; and it was nothing less than a leap of faith to name a journal: Education for Information. The times were not auspicious: people were becoming less certain as to what ‘Education’ was; and it was often said of ‘Information’ that it told one more about the user of the term than it did about its intended objective correlative. Li...