Translating Knowledge into Clinical Care

Joslin Diabetes Center, through the Professional Education Department, produces continuing medical education for healthcare providers that offers tools and information to more effectively set standards of care for people with diabetes and its related conditions, improve healthcare outcomes, and enhance patient quality of life.

Be sure to visit the Joslin Diabetes Center Web site for insight into the world leader in diabetes research, education and clinical care and click on the Professional Education link to find out about other Joslin CME activities.

CME Activities Now on Medscape

Diabetes and Insulin

CME Evolutions in Insulin Therapy: Current Perspectives on Treatment Design
Reviews the need for insulin in diabetes and discusses the design of appropriate, effective insulin programs, including the latest formulation, inhaled insulin, based on patient needs, barriers and challenges.

CME Management of Type 2 Diabetes: A Case-based Approach
An interactive case-based activity that presents guidelines for designing type 2 diabetes treatments and provides support for implementing these treatment programs in the primary care office setting.

CME Renal Disease and Anemia: Interrelationships and Clinical Implications
Reviews the pathophysiology, progression, diagnosis, monitoring, and treatment of chronic kidney disease, hypertension, and anemia, and their potential cardiovascular impact in patients with diabetes.

The Metabolic Syndrome and Cardiovascular Disease

CME Hyperglycemia and Dyslipidemia in Diabetes: Interrelationships and Interventions
Presents an evidence-based, and clinically relevant interpretation of the data supporting aggressive treatment of hyperglycemia and dyslipidemia to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease in people with diabetes.

CME Hypogonadism and Type 2 Diabetes: Relationships and Clinical Perspectives
Reviews the epidemiology, prevalence, signs, and symptoms of hypogonadism as well as the associations with the metabolic syndrome/type 2 diabetes.

CME Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Risk: Integrating Physician and Educator Perspectives
Reviews culturally diverse cases illustrating diabetes treatment strategies and the team approach encompassing physician and diabetes educator perspectives to achieve cardiovascular risk factor management goals.

Incretin Replacement Therapy

CME Glucose Control and Incretin Replacement: Achieving Therapeutic Impact
Explores the multiple pathophysiologic factors that cause type 2 diabetes, including incretin function and dysfunction, and outlines the newer mechanisms and resulting clinical strategies to target these factors.

CME Type 2 Diabetes--Restoring Glucose Homeostasis With Incretin Therapy: New Perspectives on Old Challenges
Reviews data and rationale on use of incretin-related therapies for type 2 diabetes using case scenarios that demonstrate potential strategies.

About Joslin Diabetes Center

Since its founding in 1898 by a single physician, Elliott P. Joslin, MD, Joslin Diabetes Center has revolutionized the diagnosis, treatment, prevention, and education of diabetes and its related conditions worldwide for more than a century. The physicians in the Joslin Clinic and the more than 300 scientists at Joslin are committed to pursuing innovative pathways of discovery to prevent, treat, and cure type 1 and type 2 diabetes and their complications. Through our affiliation with Harvard Medical School and our staff of thought leaders and medical experts with a vast range of research and clinical expertise, Joslin has emerged as the global leader in innovative research and pioneering approaches to education and clinical care.

In 2006, Joslin was reaccredited for six years by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME). Joslin achieved exemplary status in four accreditation elements crucial to outstanding CME: Planning, Needs Assessment, Activity Evaluation, and Program Evaluation - one more than required for the status of "Accreditation with Commendation", the highest rating available for a CME provider. The hallmark of Joslin CME activities is the translation of cutting-edge clinical and research insights into practical applications for the clinician and ultimately, into better health outcomes.