Activities

Patient Education

Diabetes Self Management Education (DSME)

DSME is an essential element of diabetes care. Education helps people with diabetes initiate effective self-management and to cope with diabetes. The overall objectives are to support informed decision making, self-care behaviors, problem solving, and active collaboration with the health care team to improve clinical outcomes, health status, and quality of life. Whole day camps for DSME are mostly organized on Saturdays and thirty six were organized in 2014. Educational workshops to built awareness on foot care, Hypoglycaemia & SMBG, Insulin injection technique are conducted. Detailed laboratory evaluations are an integral part of the program.

Health Professional

Continuing Medical Education (CME)

Continuing education helps those in the medical profession to maintain competence and learn about new and developing areas of Endocrine and Diabetes field. These activities take place as liveevents and the content for these programs is developed, reviewed and delivered by faculty who are experts in these areas. In the year 2002, the MCI introduced a new clause in its ethics code about continuing medical education (CME) and suggested every doctor to participate in CME activities. Kolkata Hormone Foundation organizes CME in the form of clinical meetings every month to exchange current knowledge in the field of Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism. Dr. Anirban Majumder, Dr. Debmalya Sanyal & Dr. Soumyabrata Roy Chaudhuri commonly conduct the CMEs.

Diabetes Educator Course

National Diabetes Educator Program (NDEP)

Continuing to the effort to these academic activities, Kolkata Hormone Foundation started the Diabetes Educator Course for paramedical care givers in association with Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Education Academy from the year 2014. NDEP is developed with the objective of creating professional diabetes educator in India. Eligible individuals are the primarily staffs currently assisting practicing physicians but without any formal training in diabetes education. The educational course was designed to enable educators to provide a complete perspective of the disease condition, the importance of self-care, blood glucose monitoring, diet, physical activity, self- injection of insulin, medication adherence and the long term benefits of compliance and a basic awareness of the various complications of diabetes. One of the objectives of this educational program was also to improve communication skills so that they could help create awareness and also help improve compliance of people with diabetes therapy resulting in better management of their condition. It would be undoubtedly beneficial to Indian society, particularly in view of the growing number of diabetes mellitus in India and acute shortage of trained educator in this field.