Diabetes and CVD

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Diabetes and CVD

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	What will you learn?
	Course overview
	CME Accreditation
	About Author(s) and Conflicts of Interest
	Course rating and feedback
	Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
	Course leaflet (PDF version)

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Diabetes and CVD

267748 Views

60 Min

English

4.5 (1443 ratings)

3866 learners enrolled

Course overview:

This course will provide an understanding of the cardiovascular complications in diabetes and its prevalence, discuss the potential risk factors associated, as well as identify screening and diagnostic tests and management strategies for such complications.

Benefits for learners:

	Evidence-based latest clinical recommendations
	Continued professional development and learning
	IDF Certificate of Completion
	CME from the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS)
	Be part of a global multidisciplinary community of diabetes professionals

Course duration:

60 min. self-paced learning to be completed within a month of enrolment.

Assessment & Award:

Complete all the section of this online course to be awarded with the IDF "Certificate of Completion" and one European CME credit.

What will you learn?

	Discuss diabetes and cardiovascular disease.
	Review the different types of cardiovascular complications.
	Describe the pathophysiology of cardiovascular complications in diabetes.
	Discuss the epidemiology of coronary heart disease, cerebrovascular disease and peripheral vascular disease.

	List the potential risk factors associated with cardiovascular complications
	Identify the screening and diagnostic tests for detecting cardiovascular complications in people with diabetes.
	Discuss the management strategies for cardiovascular complications

Course overview

Who is eligible?

	All health professionals involved in diabetes management and care are eligible to take the course.
	In particular, health professionals who work in isolated, remote settings and lack access to latest evidence-based education resources.

How does the course work?

	To obtain your IDF Certificate of Completion and one European CME credit, you should work through the content in the following order.
	You should start each section by clicking on the launch button. After completion of each section, the next section will be unlocked.
	Module learning starts with 10 Pre-test questions and ends with 10 Post-test Learning questions, either which are in multiple choice format (MCQs).

Minimum system requirements

Windows 7 and above, Mac OS X v10 or later, Linux- Chrome OS
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Assessment & Award

You must complete all the section of this online course to be awarded with the IDF "Certificate of Completion" and one European CME credit.

CME Accreditation

The European Accreditation Council accredits this online course for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME).
1 European CME credit (ECMEC®) will be awarded on successful completion of this course.

Through an agreement between the European Union of Medical Specialists (UEMS) and the American Medical Association (AMA), physicians may convert EACCME credits to an equivalent number of AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Information on the process to convert EACCME credit to AMA credit can be found at
www.ama-assn.org/go/internationalcme

About the Author and Conflicts of Interest

Dr Pedro Matos

Dr Pedro Matos holds a Medical degree from Lisbon University graduating in 1978. He specialised in Cardiology in 1988 and has been a Fellow of the Portuguese Society of cardiology since 1989. He has trained in many countries learning about aerospace medicine and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). He worked as a Cardiologist from 1988 becoming the head of the Cardiology department in 2000. Alongside these commitments, Dr Matos works as part of a group of cardiologists and surgeons at Hospital CUF. Additionally he coordinates the MRI/Cardiac CT department at CUF.

Aside from these roles, Dr Matos has worked as part of the Portuguese Aero Medical Board (1989-1996) and as part of the Board of Directors in the Portuguese Diabetes Association (APDP 2002-2005) and is currently an assessor to the Clinical Director of the APDP. He is also the editor of the official magazine from the APDP titles “VIVER EM EQUILIBRIO” (1997-present). He has worked on many clinical trials in the field of diabetes and has given oral presentations and published several scientific papers in the area of iabetes and cardiovascular disease.

Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest

It is IDF’s policy that all authors, reviewers, and planners disclose real or apparent conflicts of interest relating to the topics of this educational activity.

The authors reported the following financial relationships or relationships to products or devices they or their spouse/life partner have with commercial interests related to the content of this CME activity:

Declaration of Conflict of Interest:

The author has received no funding, payments or benefits from any commercial entity.

Additional contributor(s)

Belma Malanda, Sameer Pathan, Romina Savuleac, Lorenzo Piemonte and Anne Wiebke Ohlrogge

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Course practical information

	What will you learn?
	Course overview
	CME Accreditation
	About Author(s) and Conflicts of Interest
	Course rating and feedback
	Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
	Course leaflet (PDF version)