For Health Professionals
The Diabetes CCRE is committed to providing up-to-date resources and training to health professionals from different areas, to ensure high-quality care for all diabetes patients. We are working towards this goal through the development of programs that can be used by health professionals, aimed at facilitating better care and self-management of diabetes. An example of this is the ALG-OS program, which involves the use of an algorithm that assists insulin pump users in more effectively using this technology to manage their diabetes. The algorithm, developed by CCRE CI Alicia Jenkins, AI David O'Neal and colleagues has been developed to be disseminated by health professionals to their patients, and has shown significant success in a pilot evaluation study. More information can be found at the ALG-OS page.
Diabetes CCRE researchers publish regularly in high-profile journals and present at international and national conferences and meetings, on various aspects of diabetes care and research. Some of these publications and presentation slides can be found at the Resources page.
In addition, CI Alicia Jenkins and AI David O'Neal were recently successful in securing funding from the Royal Australian College of Physicians (RACP) to run a one-day Continuing Professional Development training seminar on insulin pump technologies. This seminar is aimed at physician registrars and trainees, mainly those without formal endocrinology training. CI Jenkins and AI O'Neal recognise that non-endocrinologist physicians and physician trainees will be increasingly exposed to patients using insulin pumps or continuous glucose sensors, as such patients are presenting at a greater level to non-endocrinologist specialists. This seminar will address the need for such formal training, with the aim of the seminar becoming a regular event that is updated to keep in line with new technologies. The first seminar will take place in early 2010, and is an example of the various training programs the Diabetes CCRE has and is actively developing. More information about the seminar will be forthcoming, so watch this space for more information.
CI Jenkins and AI O'Neal are also part of the Victorian Continuous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion (CSII) Working Party, which recently produced a comprehensive document of guidelines to establishing an insulin pump clinic. Further details can be found at the CSII page.