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Updates the General practitioner with the essential knowledge needed for practical management of Diabetes.
Learning Outcome
As a result of this course, the learner should be able to evaluate a Diabetic Patient and will be able to find the complications and treat them efficiently in different scenarios.
Curriculum
Introduction
- Brief history and Epidemiology of Diabetes
- Definition and Classification of Diabetes
- Prediabetes
- LADA and MODY
Normal Physiology
- Pancreatic morphology and islet cell functioning
- Insulin and Glucagon: secretion and action
- Insulin Resistance
- Incretins: Physiology in health and diabetes
Pathogenesis of diabetes
- Genetics of Diabetes and Monogenic Diabetes
- Type 1 Diabetes – Pathogenesis
- Type 2 Diabetes – Pathogenesis
- Obesity and relation to Insulin resistance
Clinical Features and Diagnosis
- Screening For Diabetes
- Clinical presentation of Diabetes
- Complications of Diabetes (Overview)
Microvascular
Macrovascular
Basic Management of Diabetes
- Aims of diabetes care
- Diabetes Education
- Lifestyle changes in Diabetes: Diet
- Lifestyle changes in Diabetes: Exercise
- Pharmacological agents for Diabetes :1.Oral Glucose-Lowering Agents, 2.Insulin and Insulin Treatment, 3.Non-Insulin Parenteral Therapies
- Foot care in Diabetes
- Overview of guidelines
Prospectus
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