India faces one of the world’s fastest-growing diabetes burdens. Healthcare professionals across clinical and community settings need advanced, practical, and technology-driven skills to deliver effective diabetes prevention, treatment, and long-term management.
The Certificate in Diabetes Education & Management (CDEM) equips practitioners with the clinical, technological, and behavioural competencies required to deliver high-impact diabetes care in India and other low-resource settings.
What Will You Learn?
- Foundations of diabetes physiology and clinical presentations
- Acute and chronic diabetes emergencies
- Pharmacological and non-pharmacological management strategies
- Diabetes in pregnancy, childhood, elderly and special groups
- Microvascular and macrovascular complications
- Modern technologies: CGM, insulin pumps, apps, EMR, AI, digital tools
- Lifestyle-based diabetes care
- Prevention strategies, education frameworks and multidisciplinary models
Inaugural Module
- India’s diabetes crisis
- AYUSH opportunity
- Need-gap in diabetes education
- Why practicing diabetes is a strong career path
- Overview of diabetes and global prevalence
- Socio-economic impact
- Course discipline, timelines & learning goals
Module 1: Understanding Diabetes
- 1A. Diabetes Basics
- 1B. Physiology & Pathogenesis
Module 2: Diagnosis & Management
- 2A. Clinical Management
- 2B. Drug Therapy & Treatment
Module 3: Complications in Diabetes
- 3A. Microvascular Complications
- 3B. Macrovascular Complications
- 3C. Other Complications
- 3D. Diabetes in Special Groups
- 3E. Acute Emergencies
Module 4: Technology & Diabetes
- Continuous glucose monitoring (CGM)
- Insulin pumps
- Diet & exercise apps
- Health applications
- AI in diabetes care
- Role of digital tools in prevention & monitoring
Module 5: Diabetes Education
- Importance of diabetes education
- Present & future of diabetes educators in India
- Multidisciplinary care models
- Care in low-resource and high-resource settings
Module 6: Research & Future of Diabetes Care
- New drugs for Type 1 & Type 2 diabetes
- Islet transplantation
- Gene therapy
- NAFLD & diabetes link
- Artificial pancreas technologies
- EMR & digital screening
- Future models of diabetes care
- Case-based assessments