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Professional Education

Joslin Diabetes Center is a leader in pioneering approaches to continuing education for healthcare professionals. Joslin's CME and CE activities promote the highest standards of care, drawing on up-to-date medical literature as well as cutting-edge research conducted at Joslin to provide current, relevant, and evidence-based findings from Joslin faculty and other experts.

Our mission is to help providers offer their patients optimal management of diabetes and its related conditions, improved health outcomes, and enhanced quality of life. To that end, we provide continuing medical education for all members of the diabetes team - physicians, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, dietitians, pharmacists, and other healthcare professionals- in a variety of formats, both live and online, to suit your schedule and preferred learning style.

Upcoming Joslin Symposia

 

For primary care physicians and other healthcare professionals who treat patients with diabetes and its related conditions. 



Diabetes, Oral Health, & Nutrition:
Interrelationships, Innovations, & Interventions

Saturday, March 17, 2012
Hyatt Regency Miami
400 SE Second Avenue
Miami, FL 33131

The goal of this symposium is to provide primary care providers and dentists with the information necessary to understand the connection between periodontal disease and diabetes and to develop practical screening strategies for their respective patient-care settings.



Glycemic Patterns and Metabolic Control:
Optimizing Insulin Treatment for Type 2 Diabetes

Thursday, February 16, 2012
The Dearborn Inn, A Marriott Hotel
20301 Oakwood Boulevard
Dearborn, MI

This symposium for primary care providers, who treat most people with type 2 diabetes, will teach you how to implement monitoring programs and interpret glycemic patterns to improve insulin treatment design and management in your practice. The goal is to help you better tailor insulin therapy to each patient’s individual needs, comorbidities, and self-care abilities to achieve improved glycemic control as reflected by glucose levels and A1C.



Current Enduring Activities

Harvard Joslin: Advances in Diabetes 2010—Webcast Series

In November 2010, over 200 primary care providers met for two days in Boston to hear from national experts on the latest developments in diabetes treatment, insulin management, cardiovascular risk reduction, and other topics relevant to primary care providers and their patients.


Diabetes and the Heart 2010: A Clinical Summit on Critically Challenging Patients—Webcast Series

In September 2010, over 100 primary care providers, cardiologists, and others gathered in Boston to hear from national experts on the latest developments in preventive and therapeutic interventions for the cardiometabolic syndrome, with the goal of reducing eventual morbidity and mortality in their patients.

These video/slide Web casts are speaker presentations recorded at the conference.

Improve Practice Systems and Participate in Performance Improvement (PI) CME through Joslin's Online Primary Care Community

The Joslin Professional Education Continuum (JPECTM) provides knowledge, analysis tools, and collaboration with your colleagues to help you and your clinical and office team improve your office systems, patient care and patient outcomes. Visit this free online community now and join the hundreds of other healthcare providers who are taking advantage of Joslin's expertise and resources.

 

Joslin Clinical Guidelines

To assist physicians and other healthcare professionals in managing the care of their patients with diabetes, Joslin offers approved clinical guidelines on a variety of topics including Adult Diabetes, Pharmacological Management of Type 2 Diabetes, and Continuous Glucose Monitors.  

Joslin CME Home Page on Medscape

Go to the Joslin page on Medscape for the latest Joslin online content.

ACCME Awards Joslin CME Accreditation with Commendation