About IDEAL
(ISPAE Diabetes Education And Learning)
Diabetes self-management education (DSME) is the single most important determinant of glycemic control among children and adolescents with diabetes. There is a dearth of well-trained and certified diabetes educators in India, especially for type 1 diabetes, and in smaller hospitals and cities. Recognizing this need, the ISPAE (2021-2022) Executive has launched its flagship program, a first of its kind dedicated, virtual, certified course on diabetes education for childhood diabetes, named “ISPAE Diabetes Education And Learning (IDEAL) program”.
The Team
IDEAL has a nine-member Core Committee and a fantastic team of Faculty with expertise in childhood diabetes from all over India. Together the Core Committee and the Faculty, after a great many hours of brainstorming and revisions, created a comprehensive curriculum of 17 sessions, + 5 additional Review/ Feedback sessions, that covers every aspect of pediatric and adolescent diabetes, both basic and advanced.
Core Committee:
Core Committee
Dr. Shaila Bhattacharyya
Bengaluru
Dr. Anju Virmani
Delhi
Dr. Aspi Irani
Mumbai
Dr. Santhosh Olety
Bengaluru
Ms. Sheryl Salis
Mumbai
Dr. Preeti Singh
Delhi
Dr Sirisha Kusuma Boddu
Hyderabad
ISPAE Office Bearers
Dr. Rakesh Kumar
Secretary & Treasurer
Dr. Ahila Avvayoo
President
Our team of 54 faculty members hails from all over India.
Faculty Distribution Map
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Curriculum
The main objective of the IDEAL program is to create a pool of certified diabetes educators that will benefit our children and adolescents with diabetes. IDEAL is an online-only course, conducted over 3 months, with 2-hour-long sessions conducted 2 days every week. Each session is conducted by a 3 member team, and consists of two didactic lectures for 30 minutes each, followed by an hour-long interactive and case-based discussion and Q and A time. Trainees are given practical assignments after each module. The final certificate of successful completion of the course is awarded only after the trainee fulfils the exacting attendance requirements and exhibits reasonable competence in the practical assignments and the stringent Exit Examination.
Schedule
We successfully completed training of three batch of PDEs one batch of doctors inpediatric diabetes. The fifth batch of IDEAL (non-doctors) will be starting from 1st of April and will be run over April, May and June 2023
Application
Applications are via completion of an online application form that must include a recommendation letter from the pediatrician/ pediatric endocrinologist/ endocrinologist whom you work with. The last date to apply for the April 2023 batch is 28th Feb 2023.
