Diabetes and it's Complications

Overview

What you will learn

The Diabetes and it's Complications course offered by Harvard University is focused on optimizing patient care and outcomes and improving skills in the following areas:

• Insulin initiation and intensification: which insulins to choose and why

• Understanding the new insulins, glucose monitors, and pumps

• Treating people with type 2 diabetes who are not achieving therapeutic goals

• Office-based assessment and treatment of comorbidities and complications

• Individualizing multifaceted approaches to lifestyle modification and weight management

• Personalizing nutrition plans and exercise prescriptions

• Cardiovascular risk reduction and care

• Optimal management of neuropathies and foot disease

• Managing diabetes in high-risk populations, including pregnant patients and the elderly

• Understanding the evolving concepts and treatments that will soon impact your day-to-day practice

• Communicating with, motivating, and sharing resources with patients

• Recognizing social, racial, sexual, and cultural biases in diabetes care and reviewing strategies for achieving equity and addressing disparities