Improving Diabetes Management through Diabetes Educators

Objective

The project seeks to improve the management of people with diabetes through well trained diabetes educators.

Expected impact

• 80 diabetes educators trained 
• Training of 20 in-house trainers (ToT) to provide on-job education and training of nurses, nutritionists and health educators  
• 304,000 people with diabetes educated by the diabetes educators

Results to date

• 27 diabetes tutors (15 physicians, 8 nutritionists and 4 nurses) have undergone a two week training workshop. The tutors’ role in the project will be as the faculty for the training of the diabetes educators.
• 88 diabetes educators have been trained by tutor groups and passed the final exam. 24 of these went on to and completed the in-house trainers programme.
• More than 440,000 people with diabetes have been educated by diabetes educators.
• The second edition of the Diabetes Educator’s Manual has been published.

Additional information on the project can be found here.

This page was last updated 5-27-2010 by bisl.wdf