21st Century Diabetes Management Update 2016

The 21st Century Diabetes Management Update 2016 is a 7-Night Western Caribbean Cruise Round-trip dedicated to Primary Care Physicians, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Psychologists.

Key Topics

• Injectable medications: What`s new? What`s old?
  • Review new insulin products and delivery systems
  • Explore the non-insulin injectables to treat diabetes
  • Discuss the clinical aspects and patient education implications of using selected injectables
• Getting off to a good start: initial care of any patient with diabetes.
  • List 4 essential clinical tasks to accomplish with a newly diagnosed diabetes patient
  • Describe how to foster an attitude of empowerment and realistic expectations in a patient or family of a child with newly diagnosed diabetes
  • Identify four common health care provider behaviors that discourage patient adherence with diabetes self-care
• The Ominous Octet as the type 2 diabetes "Rosetta Stone"
  • Consider the clinical tools for differentiating the ominous octet
  • Outline the eight defects contributing to type 2 diabetes
  • Discuss strategies to treat the eight physiologic challenges of type 2 diabetes
• The primary care approach to help patients and families better cope with a diagnosis of diabetes (of any type)
  • What is `patient empowerment` and how does it work in the relationship between the diabetes clinician and the patient with diabetes?
  • Identification of life context issues, psychosocial issues & impact on coping and management at time of diagnosis
  • Discuss the clinician`s role in identifying potential barriers/difficulties for effective patient coping & management AND working with patient and family to identify and implement coping strategies
• What`s new in the pharmaceutical pipeline for treating type 2 diabetes
  • Describe the latest drug therapies under FDA review to treat diabetes
  • Discuss the road from idea to FDA approval for new drugs
  • Review recent FDA warnings and cautions for currently approved diabetes drugs
• What primary care clinicians can learn from `motivational interviewing` to help persons with diabetes improve their self-care.
  • Implementing a patient empowerment strategy based on MI principles
  • Identify 2 ways in which `motivational interviewing` differs from traditional methods of counseling or therapy
  • Define "rolling with resistance"
• Are insulin pumps a panacea for poor metabolic control in diabetes?
  • Describe the common features of modern insulin pumps and how they can improve glycemic control if properly applied
  • Discuss the indications and contraindications for use of the insulin pump
  • Discuss reasons for poor outcomes with insulin pumps and methods to avoid them
• Recognizing and managing depression and burnout in persons with diabetes
  • Identify 2 treatment modalities that have proven to be helpful in treating depression in persons with diabetes
  • Differentiate major depression from `diabetes burnout`
  • List 2 physical symptoms and 2 mental symptoms of clinical depression
• Delivering diabetes self-management education in the era of self-care
  • Use the chronic care model as a tool for building a diabetes team
  • Discuss how to deliver diabetes education services for patients in a primary care practice
  • Describe the role of social media and the internet in supporting diabetes care behaviors
• Family Dynamics & the impact on Metabolic control and management behavior
  • Identify 2 primary examples of `dysfunctional parenting and couples/family coping that contribute to mismanagement & ineffective coping in both children and adults
  • Describe Parameters of Assessment for Family Functioning in families with a member with diabetes T1 T2, Adults & Children
  • Describe the Family Approach to Diabetes Management 3 principles of Effective Parenting/Principles of Couples Functioning - impact on metabolic control and using the Family Approach to Diabetes management to develop and implement effective clinical strategies to improve clinical outcomes
• Sugar Surfing 2: Basic moves and benefits
  • List the commonly used therapeutic maneuvers in Sugar Surfing
  • Describe common type 1 diabetes scenarios which benefit from dynamic diabetes management
  • List 3 secondary benefits to long term use of a continuous glucose monitoring device
• Sugar Surfing 1: The role of dynamic diabetes management strategies in diabetes
  • Compare and contrast static versus dynamic diabetes self-care tactics
  • Discuss the indication for use of real-time continuous glucose monitoring
  • Describe why dynamic diabetes management is the future of optimal diabetes outcomes
  • List 5 false idols of diabetes self-care
• From stem cells to the artificial pancreas: Hot topics in Diabetes Research 2016
  • Discuss current clinical research strategies to augment beta cell activity or prevent their loss
  • Describe the path to a biological cure for diabetes
  • Discuss the current status of the artificial pancreas
• Common diabetes dilemmas
  • Discuss the concept of carbohydrate counting and its role in diabetes self-management
  • Discuss frequently seen diabetes dilemmas and their approach to management
  • Describe the clinical approach to the patient with a double-digit hemoglobin A1C