Training for docs to improve things!

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Just in case someone somewhere with responsibility for training diabetic specialists ever reads this...!

I really REALLY wish this forum was compulsory reading for at least part of every diabetic specialist's qualification! I also wish (whilst I'm badgering fairy godmother lol!) that said 'specialists' had to 'care', for at least a week (24/7!) of some kind of tamegotchi thing (is that what they were called?!) where they had to control the 'sugar levels' only being able to give the inputs that we can, say on MDI - ie whole units of insulin, food (in crude carb portions, which the programme would sometimes ensure they had carb estimated wrong!) and exercise... the computer programme would then perform the part of our bodies by playing merry hell with the results, with computer inputs that would approximate the effects of exercise, time of the month, alcohol, weather, pregnancy, illness, stress, etc etc etc - the doc/trainee should be able to see that an input by the computer had been made for that reason/category, but not the magnitude...!

At the end of the week, an HbA1c 'result' could be debriefed together with plots of the results they had achieved (sounds horrible, but hopefully suitable ego-quashing!! 😉) Maybe this would help some of them snap out of 'text book' mode?... 🙂

(At this point I should say my own current doc is ace bless him, but I've come across some right lemons in the past & get really cross esp when I hear of other diabetic pregnant ladies having bad experiences!! 😱 )

Right, prayer to the heavens over, off me soapbox...! 😱
 
Great idea! It could wake them up sweating and frightened in the middle of the night! 😱 😉 Or interrupt them in important meetings! 🙂
 
He he!! I once went hypo presenting to a very important customer company who were known for giving us a rough ride... I was mortified but they were really nice about it & I'm sure gave me an easier time for the rest of the review as a result! 😱 Not a method I'd recommend though...!
 
Maybe we could form a pressure group to make sure that people who treat diabetes have diabetes...we've had two type 1 pharmacy students with us this year, in two years time that's two sympathetic pharmacists on the books. It's a step in the right direction, go girls!
Also training does work, my colleague who two years ago thought that diabetes could be cured if i was really, really really good, now recognises that there's two types, and that type ones require insulin and type 2s require...patience...
And that neither of them are very curable.
 
What an excellent idea!

That tamagotchi thing would actually be a good learning tool for the newly diagnosed too.

I don't know whether you were joking or not, but I don't see why it really can't be done.

Andy 🙂
 
It's a great idea. I like the idea of having to care for a diabetic tamagochi/computer generated thing with diabetes too.

Slightly off topic and hopefull slightly relevent, but in a bed to cut teenage preganancies some of the schools in my area were giving all teeneagers (including boys) a doll with a computer chip in it programmed to behave like a baby. SOme of the teenagers could not cope and others loved being mum or dad so much they couldn't wait to have a baby of their own. It is all about education.
 
Twitchy said:
At the end of the week, an HbA1c 'result' could be debriefed together with plots of the results they had achieved (sounds horrible, but hopefully suitable ego-quashing!! 😉) Maybe this would help some of them snap out of 'text book' mode?... 🙂
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What a brilliant idea. 😎

I'm also guessing that something similar could be done with specialists in other conditions such as asthma, dementia ...... etc. and therefore it might be worth a company having a go at it.
 
RachelT said:
Maybe we could form a pressure group to make sure that people who treat diabetes have diabetes...we've had two type 1 pharmacy students with us this year, in two years time that's two sympathetic pharmacists on the books. It's a step in the right direction, go girls!
Also training does work, my colleague who two years ago thought that diabetes could be cured if i was really, really really good, now recognises that there's two types, and that type ones require insulin and type 2s require...patience...
And that neither of them are very curable.
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+1 more, hopefully!
 
I suspect that quite a few health care professionals DO read these boards, but not post, as that would be considered unprofessional. In another field of work, I read but never post.
 
Just sent link to a friend who has just completed first year of medical degree... If you get lots of views from Swansea, that'll be why.
 
Twitchy said:
Love the poem!! :D
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There's been quite a bit of interest from the blog and on Twitter - people think it would be a great educational tool for biology class too! One lady has suggested giving Sims diabetes - sounds a bit sick, but people often learn best through play! :D
 
I'm wondering whether to fire the suggestion off to some local uni's that have medical sciences / computer science type departments, to suggest as a final year project?....

I like the Sims idea!
 
Slightly off topic but could you find some way of teaching them to write properly and legibly as well please?
 
Have a bunch of replies just disappeared, or has my computer gone bananas? I was partway through reading a bunch of stuff about being lefthanded?

Sorry if it's been removed for some reason...
 
yeah northey been busy i reckon, we went off subject he might be putting it elsewhere x

cate if u go to off subject its there under left handers x
 
soz we went seriously off thread so northe has moved it to new thread called left handers !!! 🙂
 
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