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Strengthening the Doctor-Patient Relationship and Improving Patient Care.
Taking Control Of Your Diabetes is taking on a challenge that, to our
knowledge, has never been
Upcoming CME Programs:
About Making the Connection: Current caregiver practice habits are not designed to evolve with the ever-changing standards of care for people with diabetes. One of the major barriers in the process of changing caregiver practice habits is that physicians and other diabetes professionals do not understand the physical and emotional issues that people living with diabetes and their family members face on a day-to-day basis. 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. |
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.
