Diabetes Academy - What’s new in diabetes? Advanced Course" is an important clinical update discussing the keys to treatment for diabetes. The course is intended to increase the knowledge and confidence of clinicians caring for people with diabetes. The Advanced course provides essential updates on diabetes and its complications to enable clinicians to understand some of the intricacies and nuances of caring for people living with diabetes.

Diabetes management is rapidly evolving. This e-learning course provides an evidence-based update for clinicians on emerging technologies and novel medications available to improve outcomes in people living with diabetes and its complications. Clinical case studies using video vignettes and multiple-choice questions are designed to optimise comprehension and learning.

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Designed For

Suitable for clinicians working in the field of diabetes, including GPs, physician trainees, endocrinologists and endocrine trainees, practice nurses, diabetes nurse educators, general physicians, pharmacists and medical students.

Learning Outcomes

1. Interpret commercially available closed loop technology.
2. Manage the impact of exercise, corticosteroids, fasting, sickness and travel on blood glucose management.
3. Recognise common dermatological conditions, including diabetic dermopathy, diabetic bullae and acanthosis nigricans, associated with diabetes.
4. To detect diabetic kidney disease and the risk of cardiovascular disease for people with diabetic kidney disease.
5. To define the pathophysiology and epidemiology of diabetic retinopathy, the risk factors, classification, screening and management of diabetic retinopathy.
6. Recognise the neurocognitive and psychosocial impacts for young adults on diabetes education and establishing self-efficacy.

Course Units

• Tutorial 1: Closed Loop Technology
• Tutorial 2: Special Considerations in type 1 diabetes
• Tutorial 3: Managing Diabetic Kidney Disease
• Tutorial 4: An update on Diabetic Retinopathy
• Tutorial 5: Skin manifestations of diabetes
• Tutorial 6: Transition of young adults with type 1 diabetes

Assessment

The assessment is submission of the 6 tutorials, 6 self-assessments and 12 case studies. A Certificate of Completion is provided upon satisfactory completion of the course.

Delivery Mode

Course completion requires approximately 12 hours of e-learning. This course is delivered online and students can study in their own time and location. Course materials can be accessed using a web browser.

Course Director

Prof Elif Ekinci

MBBS, FRACP, PhD

Associate Professor Elif Ekinci is an academic endocrinologist who is working to translate research into improved outcomes for people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes. She is the Sir Edward “Weary” Dunlop Medical Research Foundation Principal Research Fellow in Metabolic Medicine at The University of Melbourne, Department of Medicine, Austin Health. She is also the Director of Diabetes at Austin Health, a large tertiary referral centre affiliated with the University of Melbourne, where she co-ordinates the clinical care of inpatients and outpatients with diabetes.

Authors

• Dr Catriona Sims
• Dr Barbora Paldus
• Dr Melissa Lee
• Prof David O’Neal
• A/Prof Peter van Wijngaarden
• Jess Tang
• Prof Richard MacIsaac
• Prof Elif Ekinci
• Dr Ashani Lecamwasam
• A/Prof Christine Rodda
• Dr Gayle Ross

Application Procedure

Click on the ‘Enrol now’ button to be guided to the application form.

Course Fees

Course Fee: AUD $275.00 (incl. GST)

Student/Doctor in Training/Nurse/Trainee Discounted Fee*: AUD $137.50* (incl. GST)

For discounted group rates for hospitals, schools or clinics please contact us mobile-learning@unimelb.edu.au

Combined Course Offer

We are currently providing a discounted price for healthcare practitioners who wish to enrol into both What's New in Diabetes and Diabetes Advanced. The course fees are :

Course Fee: AUD $650.00 (incl. GST)

Student/Doctor in Training/Nurse/Trainee Discounted Fee*: AUD $375.00* (incl. GST)

Contact Us

E: mobile-learning@unimelb.edu.au

T: +61 3 8344 5673