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).

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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.
This Curriculum was drafted by a multi-professional group of DESG experts. Its aim is to propose a model of basic systematic training of health care professionals in therapeutic patient education. The learning objectives for patients are not included in this document, and can be found in the DESG Teaching Letters.

The electronic version of the BASIC CURRICULUM FOR HEALTH PROFESSIONALS ON DIABETES THERAPEUTIC EDUCATION is now available for download on the website.

To view the full text use the link above, or refer to the appropriate section of the website, EVENTS AND TOOLS/Pubblications