Diabetes in Primary Care PGCert
Postgraduate
In Brighton
Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
Brighton
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Duration
2 Years
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Start date
Different dates available
This course has been designed to provide advanced professional education in diabetes care for a wide range of practitioners working in primary care including: general practitioners, nurses from primary care, podiatrists and pharmacists.
Practitioners gain knowledge of current best practice in the diagnosis and management of diabetes; the epidemiology of diabetes type 1 and type 2 and pathophysiology; diagnosis, treatment and lifestyle modification. Clinical learning is blended with teaching in organisational and policy context to enable clinicians to contribute more effectively to improving the design, delivery, outcomes and cost-effectiveness of services and to inform evidence-based practice.
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About this course
The course provides an accessible and achievable postgraduate qualification for professionals who provide care and support for people with diabetes in the community.
Practitioners will gain clinical and professional knowledge which will enhance their ability to practice, commission and promote state of the art evidence-based care.
This course is open to post-registration doctors and qualified practitioners with relevant clinical experience in any profession allied to medicine.
This course is only open to applications from UK/ EU/ Island residents.
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Subjects
- Diabetes
- Primary
- Management
- Clinical management
- Decision Making
- Risk Assessment
- Hypertension
- Obesity
- Cardiovascular
- Sexual Dysfunction
Course programme
- Initial diagnosis and management
- Clinical management
- Self-care and decision making
- Oral agents
- Insulin
- Diet, exercise and lifestyle
- Partnerships in care and negotiating treatments
- Monitoring and Risk Assessment
- Hypertension
- Lipids
- Obesity
- Lower limb
- Cardiovascular
- Renal
- Sexual dysfunction
- Referral thresholds
- Tools, timing and patient perspective
- Special situations
Diabetes in Primary Care PGCert