Structured diabetes education in Sweden

Medical education in Sweden.

Undergraduate medical education in Sweden has moved from nationally regulated, subject-based courses to programmes integrated either around organ systems or physiological and patho-physiological processes, or organised around basic medical science in conjunction with clinical specialities, with individual profiles at the seven medical schools. The national regulations are restricted to overall ...

Beyond CME: diabetes education field-interactive strategies from Sweden.

Structured Type 1 Diabetes Education Delivered Within Routine Care

OBJECTIVE To determine whether improvements in glycemic control and diabetes-specific quality of life (QoL) scores reported in research studies for the type 1 diabetes structured education program Dose Adjustment For Normal Eating (DAFNE) are also found when the intervention is delivered within routine U.K. health care. RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS Before and after evaluation of DAFNE to asses...

Assessment of inpatient diabetes education throughout a structured questionnaire

Materials and methods From January to May 2015, 92 patients were educated during hospitalization and were included in this pilot study. Since inclusion is ongoing, here we present partial Results. On average, age was 63+17 yrs. and time of diagnosis was 13+2 yrs. and 80 patients were on insulin. The average number of sessions were 2,8 (range 1-8). Previous A1c were available for 62 patients (av...

Diabetes mellitus type 2: structured care and education

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