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Baker IDI Education Services Team

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Strategies for Education & Training

• Delivery of expert diabetes care

• Health promotion, capacity building / workforce development

• Development of resources for clients, carers and health professionals

• Clinical research focusing on education service delivery

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Health Professional Training & Education• Programs held at Baker IDI

– Intensive programs

– Workshops

– Corporate Training

• Annual symposium with Diabetes Australia Victoria

• External training eg. Royal District Nursing Services, Deakin University Victoria, Mayfield Education Centre, Melbourne Victoria,

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Further Education & Training• Lifestyle modification program delivered nationally to facilitators –

Reset for Life

• Intensive and comprehensive education program for allied health professionals from around Australia and NZ

• Online education program for GP’s in collaboration with Monash University

• Postgraduate lecture program and Clinical placement for undergraduate and postgraduate

• Collateral - Carbohydrate counting resource, pump information booklet, The Shopper’s guide to healthy foods, Living with Type 2 Diabetes, Flex IT booklet for people with Type 1 Diabetes, ED Assessment & Clinical Pathway and healthy food labeling tips card

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Baker IDI -Health Promotion Plan

• Capacity Building

• Promotion of Physical Activity

• Healthy Eating

• Prevention of Diabetes

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Health Promotion Activities

• Reset - Lifestyle Modification Program

• Satellite education clinics, providing one on one and group programs

• Lift for Life (Strength training for people at of or with type 2 diabetes )

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Commercial Projects

• Self management programs -with the aim of complications prevention

• Australian GP Network – on line education packages

• Education Tools development

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Direct Client Care Education Programs• Individual consultations with a diabetes educator, dietician or

counsellor

– Pre-diabetes

– Type 1 Diabetes

– Type 2 Diabetes

– Ambulatory stabilisation on to insulin

– Continous Glucose Monitoring Systems

– Continous Subcutaneous Insulin Infusion stabilisation

– Weight management

– Carbohydrate counting

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Direct Client Care Education Programs• Group education programs

– BALANCE Type 2 diabetes management program

– FlexIT Flexible insulin therapy for Type 1 diabetes

– Supermarket tours

– Introduction to Pump therapy

– Preparation for Pump therapy

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Quality Improvement

• Baker IDI have achieved 3 year accreditation

• QICSA – Quality Improvement Community Service Accreditation

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Research Projects• Review Paper on diabetes prevention programs published in

Therapy (International Journal)

• Pre and Post pump CGMS study

• Pumps vs. Intensive MDI ed programs retrospective study

• Effect of fermented vs. non-fermented diary products on lipid levels (Dairy Board)

• Sustagen and efficacy for use in people with diabetes (Nestle)

• Presentations and posters at ADEA/ADS

• Commencement of ongoing evaluation of programs

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Academic and Clinical Partnerships• Provide services at Local Private Hospital

• Provide lectures to students enrolled in Mayfield Certificate of Diabetes Education, Royal District Nursing Service

• Provide clinical placement for students from Mayfield, Deakin, Latrobe, and Monash

• Mark assignments for Diabetes module of Master of Family Medicine, Monash University

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Broader Partnerships and Collaboration• Community Health Service

• Divisions of GP

• Diabetes Australia - Victoria

• Education Institutes

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Priorities for change in diabetes education and management

• Prevention of type 2 diabetes

• Capacity Building and improve allied health professional diabetes management and educational skills

• Development of education programs and resources for clients, carers and health professionals

• Fostering the integration of heart disease and diabetes research, education and management

• Partnerships and collaboration with Primary Care Providers, and other organizations including divisions of GP’s

• Committed consumer empowerment through greater consultation with consumer