Diabetes Education Study Group

Our Aim

To encourage and support therapeutic education about diabetes and the rapid diffusion of acquired scientific knowledge in the field.

(See the DESG Constitution)

This Website

is intended for all Health Professionals interested in Therapeutic Patient Education in the field of diabetes. It was not conceived for people with diabetes. However it provides several links to relevant websites for those who seek information on diabetes for personal reasons (see Counseling).

2010 DESG GC Workshop - 20 to 23 January, Paris

This year's GC Workshop will take place in Paris, from 20th to 23rd January.

More than 60 participantes from 14 countries are expected to attend this meeting to discuss "The road to Patient Centeredness - How to go beyond good intentions"

A Citizen's Guide to Chronic Disease Care

Book: Click here to download

Gondolas and Gondoliers

Video: Click here for the video

Alternative format: Click here for the same video above in an alternative format

Past DESG Workshops and Symposia


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Teaching Letters

Teaching Letters Authors Introductury Note Teaching Letters In the 1980s the Diabetes Education Study Group of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes produced a series of twenty Teaching Letters which have been translated into 26 languages and distributed worldwide and later updated.
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You have Type 2 Diabetes: Meaning and Implications

You have Type 2 Diabetes: Meaning and Implications, has been published on the website.

To view and download the material click on the titles above or follow the appropriate link in the section OUR MATERIAL.

DESG BASIC CURRICULUM

For an effective Therapeutic Education of people with diabetes, health care professionals need to change many time-honoured attitudes, in order to acquire competencies and skills which have not traditionally been taught in professional or medical schools, and to organize differently their professional time and space with respect to the way it is usually utilised.
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WHO-EUROPE REPORT

The training of health operators in patient education

Patient education is recognised as an essential therapeutic tool in all chronic diseases, but is not yet inserted into normal curricula for doctors or other health operators. Things are changing, however, in certain experimental medical courses in Europe and the United States and in numerous paramedical university diplomas, in which training in patient education is becoming a basic subject.