Diabetes Professional Training

Training for diabetes clinicians and educators

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Training for diabetes clinicians and educators

Scripps Health provides quality, state-of-the-art professional education and training for physicians, health professionals, and paraprofessionals who wish to increase their knowledge and skills in diabetes care and self-management education. The training team includes diabetes experts, such as physicians, nurses, dietitians, certified diabetes educators, psychologists, advance practice nurses, health educators and public health professionals. All have extensive expertise specific to diabetes care, continuing medical education, and health professional and paraprofessional training.


Scripps Health is committed to its contribution in improving the quality of health care and advancing medical practices by providing continuing medical education (CME).


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Educational programs and services

Scripps Whittier Diabetes Institute offers a variety of resources and training opportunities for health care providers and educators to help them grow professionally and improve patient care in diabetes management and health coaching. To learn more about scheduling and pricing, please complete the form on this page.

Fundamentals of Diabetes Management

Duration

1 day


CME credit

Yes, CME and CEUs available


Intended audience

Clinical providers, health care professionals, lay health workers, diabetes educators, health educators 


Instructors

Endocrinologist, RN/Clinical Nurse Specialist, RN or RD/CDE


Objective

Cover basic diabetes management concepts and education and treatment approaches for clinical providers and educators


Cost

$5,000/group

$110/individual*


Note: Individual prices apply to groups with minimum attendance requirements. Additional travel and lodging costs for out-of-town group trainings. Prices negotiable for safety net providers.

Advanced Clinical Management of Diabetes

Duration

1 day


CME credit

Yes, CME available


Intended audience 

Physicians, primary care and specialists, nurse practitioners, physician assistants 


Instructors  

Physician/diabetes specialists (primary care, cardiology, endocrinology, nephrology and more) clinical researchers, psychologists


Objective 

Provide up-to-date information on diabetes-related therapeutic approaches, including medication management, technology, behavioral interventions, and recent research findings

Population Management and Health Coaching for Results

Duration

1 day in-person training with 2 diabetes psychologists; 8-hour virtual training with 1 psychologist


CME credit 

Yes, CME and CEUs available


Intended audience 

Clinic managers, nursing supervisors, operations directors, physician leaders of primary care clinics or delivery systems


Instructors  

Physician, clinical psychologist, health administrator 


Objective:  

Prepares lay or clinical professionals to implement a diabetes management/population management program using health coaching.


Cost

$8,000/group of up to 20 attendees

$4,000/group of 10 attendees (virtual delivery) 



Note: Individual prices apply to groups with minimum attendance requirements. Additional travel and lodging costs for out-of-town group trainings.

Diabetes Behavioral Health Professional Training 

Duration

4-hour training live or virtual delivery format


CEUs credit 

Yes, CEUs available


Intended audience

Clinic managers, nursing supervisors, operations directors, physician leaders of primary care clinics or delivery systems


Instructors

Diabetes clinical psychologist


Objective 

Prepares mental health professionals to address common issues experienced by patients with diabetes (adherence, diabetes distress, anxiety, depression). 


Cost

$2,000/group of up to 8 attendees

Consulting and technical assistance

Scripps diabetes clinical and administrative professionals provide guidance and support as a clinic practice implements systems to improve diabetes care and outcomes. General topics include:


  • Designing a diabetes care management program
  • Health coaching and care coordination for better diabetes outcomes
  • Peer education — using paraprofessionals to deliver diabetes self-management education


Consulting services are available, hourly rates are contingent on the negotiated scope of work.

Multi-language diabetes handouts

To enable health providers and community organizations to better serve diverse populations with diabetes, Project Dulce has developed a series of infographic and simple-to-read educational handouts. These handouts cover 20 topics related to diabetes care and are available in eight languages common to populations throughout the country.


See our multi-language patient handouts for illustrated PDFs on diabetes management topics in eight languages.

Diabetes patient education handouts