Corporate Education

Pharmaceutical, device, and other healthcare companies use the services of Joslin to offer customized training programs for key staff on diabetes and its related conditions.  Recognizing that every organization has specific educational needs, Joslin will work with you to design a program that meets your strategic goals and ensures maximum impact to your team.

Joslin's programs have the unique advantage of being able to harness the synergies that develop from being an intrinsic part of an institution comprised of researchers, clinicians and patient and professional educators. Joslin's industry education programs offer dynamic and comprehensive approaches to the management and care of people with diabetes and its related conditions, drawing on up-to-the-minute medical literature, current research and a wealth of hands-on clinical experience.  The result is effective and meaningful education that becomes an important tool for the industry professional.

Over 6200 industry professionals have participated in Joslin-developed educational programs since 2009.

• An understanding of the disease state and challenges from the perspective of patients and healthcare providers
• An enhanced ability to effectively participate in discussions with clinicians
• An opportunity to learn from and interact with Joslin and Harvard Medical School faculty and other current thought leaders

• Live 1-3 day Seminars
• Webcasts
• Podcasts
• Education for sales representatives and Medical Scientific Liaisons
• Strategic seminars for senior level people – corporate strategy planning

• Presentations
• Interactive case vignettes
• Patient panel discussions
• Physician panels
• Diabetes simulation workshop
• Current research reviews
• Audience response system
• Teach-backs on information learned

In a typical recent program:

• 100% would recommend this course to others!
• 94% said this course would increase customer satisfaction
• 85% gave the program an overall rating of “excellent”
• 70% “strongly agreed” that the program would enhance their professional effectiveness

In one program with 662 attendees, knowledge questions answered correctly from pre-program test to post-program test increased an average of 56%.

A distinguished faculty of doctors, researchers, CDEs, and mental health professionals from Joslin, a teaching affiliate of Harvard Medical School, conduct our programs.

“This is the best program I have attended in the last 15 years either in diabetes or in the industry.”

“This program will greatly improve my knowledge base when speaking to physicians.”

“This program helped to understand the clinical approach physicians have with patients with multiple disease states.”

“This program gave me a deeper understanding and compassion for patient experience from angles beyond simply A1C and numbers.”

• “Fundamentals of Diabetes Pathophysiology and Approaches to Treatment”
• “Fundamentals of the Cardiometabolic Disease Syndrome: Pathophysiology and Approaches to Treatment”

Intensive educational programs which include:

• Home Study
• Live seminars
• Core required content
• Wide variety of electives
• Certificate upon completion of comprehensive posttest
  

For more information about Educational Programs for Industry Professionals, call Anne Gregory at 617-309-5929 or email anne.gregory@joslin.harvard.edu.