21st Century Diabetes Management Update 2016

  • 12-19 Jun 2016
  • Royal Caribbean Liberty of the Seas - Cruise from Galveston, TX, United States

Description

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.

The 21st Century Diabetes Management Update 2016 covers topics such as:

  • 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

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Event Categories

Health & Medicine: Diabetes, Emergency medicine, Endocrinology, Family medicine, Hospitals & Clinics, Internal medicine, Mental Health, Nursing, Pediatrics, Psychiatry

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