Subjects include the following:

• Listening to the Patient Voice and engaging patients to help themselves
• Three critical interventions you should make following a new diabetes diagnosis
• Lifestyle changes for diabetes prevention: what really works
• Diabetes care resources for your office and you patients
• What defines prediabetes

Once you are done with this activity, you will be able to:

• Summarize new advances with insulin therapy
• Provide culturally competent care that provides education to improve patient’s risk recognition and motivation to engage in positive health self-management behaviors
• Illustrate strategy for comprehensive diabetes care, including diagnosis and regular screening for diabetes risk factors and other comorbid diseases
• Incorporate new knowledge to improve guideline-based treatment of patients with T2DM
• Apply knowledge of diabetes pathophysiology and treatment to the application of best practices for treatment of patients with T2DM
• Illustrate application of strategies to overcome barriers to treatment advancement in patients with T2DM
• Illustrate a multidisciplinary care model that integrates with community resources provided to patients
• Summarize key patient and physician barriers to treatment advancement that incorporates injection therapy
• Review considerations for managing patients with T2DM and comorbid diseases
• Discuss the economic and healthcare impact of an expanding diabetes population resulting from failure of optimal preventive, diagnostic and treatment strategies
• Apply lifestyle modification strategies to managing individuals with prediabetes in order to prevent progression to diabetes
• Evaluate treatment options that include insulin regimen and the optimal strategy for patients with T1DM and T2DM