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Strengthening the Doctor-Patient Relationship and Improving Patient Care.
About Making the Connection: Taking Control Of Your Diabetes is taking on a challenge that, to our knowledge, has never been attempted, successfully or unsuccessfully, by anyone, anywhere. In the fall of 2006 we launched a new kind of continuing medical education (CME) program for healthcare providers. Educating physicians on the most up-to-date strategies in diabetes management is a very slow and difficult process. One of the biggest challenges in improving diabetes care in this country is to change the attitudes of caregivers towards their patients struggling with diabetes. With these programs, TCOYD hopes to foster a more empathetic atmosphere and more open communication between people with diabetes and their health-care providers. The TCOYD Side-By-Side Continuing Medical Education Program offers a unique opportunity to bridge patient and professional education, demonstrating the link between clinical lessons in the classroom to the real life patient experience. The ultimate goal of these eleven activities is to educate care givers about the most effective cutting edge strategies to help patients with diabetes reach their treatment goals and avoid the associated acute and chronic complications. This program aims to achieve caregiver appreciation of the many previously unrealized concerns that affect patient adherence or non-adherence with a prescribed medical regimen. Participants will be encouraged to consider the various therapeutic options they learn throughout the program, as well as any barriers to good control that a particular case may present. The goal is to encourage providers to consider these cases as whole individuals, taking into account their lifestyle, beliefs, background and environment when deciding upon treatment options. |
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