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DAFNE - in person or remote?

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Inka said:
I’d hope a person’s team would know them well enough to make that judgement.
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That's the hope, obviously. Attending one of these courses means they see you (in a group, admittedly) for a few hours over a short period of time. That's likely to be more than they'll have seen each person over years, normally.
 
By the time i got daphne, i'd already kicked up a stink enough to get a ketone meter, half unit pen etc, mainly via diabetes uk literature and this place!
Thry'll also prob try to get you on levemir
..i stayed on abasaglar as only on 2 units so can't really split that and have any flexibility. I did ask for half unit levemir pen but they denied such a thing existing even though i told them the name of the pen (again, info from here)
 
janedent said:
Hi
I punched the air yesterday when I got the email offering me a place on a DAFNE course in January. The downside (to me) was that it's a remote course and I'm an in-person person. I'm wondering whether to wait for a face to face course (if there is one - I will enquire).
I realise nobody on this forum will have done both courses to make a comparison, but does anyone have any experience and opinion of the remote course?
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Hi, just to say I’ve been put on the BERTIE course for January. It’s a face to face, which I prefer. See if you can get on that one maybe. Good luck.
 
Dianusia said:
Hi, just to say I’ve been put on the BERTIE course for January. It’s a face to face, which I prefer. See if you can get on that one maybe. Good luck.
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Bertie is the Bournemouth course. The OP probably doesn’t live in Bournemouth?
 
Thank you everybody, for your replies. The online DAFNE course looks reassuringly thorough - it's a total of 40 hours long. The Open University is mentioned. Looking at the timetable (which isn't completely easy to understand), there seems to be a 3 hour session online every week and the rest of it is homework. Meeting other type 1s is a big reason for wanting to do it and face to face is so much better for that.
Anyway, I've rung the person in charge and asked her to ring me back so I can ask her if this is my one and only chance, so I'll wait and see what she says...
 
Daisycoo said:
I did the remote one instead of in person. It was pretty straight forward and finished it in a couple of hours.
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This one must be different. It's 40 hours over 5 weeks, in a group of 4. Maybe you did the BERTIE course...
 
Lucyr said:
If you feel you’re generally managing ok then I’d ask if a face to face option is available and take that if available in say the first half of next year. In the meantime I’d do the online courses.

If you need help with bgs and understanding diabetes much quicker than I’d take the virtual option.
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Thanks Lucy, I was veering towards that decision - pragmatic!
 
JJay said:
Actually I did do both, thanks to Covid! This wasn't the actual DAFNE but a local version thereof, designed to run over 4 weekly sessions. We managed 2 before lockdown struck. It was resurrected as a remote course (via Microsoft Teams) a year later.

I infinitely preferred the in person sessions - I felt I was getting to know everyone better and there no distractions caused by the technology! I found it easier to ask questions and contribute to discussion, too.

However, if remote turns out to be your only option, do go for it - you will still get a lot out of it.
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That's exactly how I feel about meeting people online. I do some online meetings for work, but never feel much of a connection with the people.
 
janedent said:
This one must be different. It's 40 hours over 5 weeks, in a group of 4. Maybe you did the BERTIE course...
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40 hours is a lot! The one I went on (not DAFNE) was more like 10 hours over 4 weeks (a couple of hours one evening each week).
 
Dianusia said:
You don’t have to live in Bournemouth. I live in West Sussex.
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Ok but same applies to other areas, if the poster lived in an area offering face to face Bertie they’d be offered that not Dafne
 
janedent said:
This one must be different. It's 40 hours over 5 weeks, in a group of 4. Maybe you did the BERTIE course...
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Mine (Bertie in bournemouth) is face to face 9-3 once a week for 4 weeks so 24 hours teaching, lunch is part of the learning really. Plus the homework.
 
janedent said:
This one must be different. It's 40 hours over 5 weeks, in a group of 4. Maybe you did the BERTIE course...
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No it was definitely DAFNE. I did it through my betes team and the Open University mid July. I’m sure it was meant to take longer (maybe a hour or so a night) but I sat one night and went through it all in a couple of hours.
It wasn’t to bad, a lot of things to watch/listen to. Bit of working out and selecting answers. A couple of hours and I had completed it
 
Lucyr said:
Ok but same applies to other areas, if the poster lived in an area offering face to face Bertie they’d be offered that not Dafne
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Maybe, but I was offered both. I think it would be best to ask DN rather than jump to assumptions.
 
Dianusia said:
Maybe, but I was offered both. I think it would be best to ask DB rather than jump to assumptions.
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If they’d been offered an in person Bertie course they wouldn’t be asking the question though…
 
I was lucky enough to be offered both (The NHS Trust where I am has a remote DAFNE centre, in one of the major hospitals, and a seperate Diabetes Centre, offering a face-to-face course) - I chose the face-to-face one and although all the course content is the same, I'm with many others in saying that it was good to meet up with other people in the same boat as me, which I found the most rewarding part. That said, the actual knowledge you gain on the course is transferrable to an online setting (and I still refer to my coursebook regularly) - it was great for me
 
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