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Diabetes The Basics An Introduction: The Topics Covered in Course 1 Include

This document provides an overview of a 7-course program about diabetes. It notes that over 9 million Canadians and 346 million people worldwide have diabetes or prediabetes. The program aims to help pharmacy technicians broaden their knowledge about diabetes and how it affects diagnosed individuals. Each course covers different topics and includes a pre-assessment, reading material, evaluation form, and quiz requiring a 70% score to earn continuing education credits. Course 1 topics include what diabetes is, the roles of insulin and other contributing factors, signs and symptoms of diabetes, and how it is diagnosed and managed.

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Diabetes The Basics An Introduction: The Topics Covered in Course 1 Include

This document provides an overview of a 7-course program about diabetes. It notes that over 9 million Canadians and 346 million people worldwide have diabetes or prediabetes. The program aims to help pharmacy technicians broaden their knowledge about diabetes and how it affects diagnosed individuals. Each course covers different topics and includes a pre-assessment, reading material, evaluation form, and quiz requiring a 70% score to earn continuing education credits. Course 1 topics include what diabetes is, the roles of insulin and other contributing factors, signs and symptoms of diabetes, and how it is diagnosed and managed.

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DIABETES THE BASICS An Introduction

OVERVIEW
Did you know that more than 9 million Canadians are currently living with diabetes or prediabetes1? Even more staggering are the figures from the World Health Organization (WHO). They estimate that there are currently 346 million people worldwide affected by diabetes 2. This number is expected to hit 438 million by 2030.1 As pharmacy technicians, working in the health sector will bring you into contact with many people who have diabetes. This program has been developed to help you broaden your knowledge about diabetes and how it affects the people who are diagnosed with it.

ABOUT THIS PROGRAM


This program includes seven courses that cover many aspects of diabetes. Each course has a pre-assessment quiz that reviews what you know about the topic before you start the course. After reading the course, complete the Evaluation Form and the Quiz at the end of the course. The Quiz will help you determine what you have learned and what information you may still need to review. In order to qualify for the CEUs for this course, you will need to achieve a score of 70% or higher on the Quiz. You will have two opportunities to achieve this score.

THE TOPICS COVERED IN COURSE 1 INCLUDE:


What is diabetes? What is insulin? What factors contribute to the development of diabetes? What is prediabetes? What are the signs and symptoms of diabetes? How is diabetes diagnosed? How is diabetes managed?

The Canadian Council on Continuing Education in Pharmacy has accredited this program -1079-2011-367-I-T for 1.5 CEUs. Accreditation of this program will be recognized by CCCEP under the above noted file number until December 14, 2014.

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