Joslin Diabetes Center

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  • Overview of diabetes/genetics and diabetes
  • Words and phrases for diabetes and treatment
  • Online classes on diabetes management
  • Professional education opportunities

American Diabetes Association

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  • Pre-diabetes signs and symptoms
  • Types of diabetes and treatment options
  • Food choices and carbohydrate counting
  • Weight management and physical activities
  • Depression and diabetes
  • Peripheral vascular disease
  • Food  and activity counter
  • Blood glucose log
  • All resources available in Spanish and English

American Diabetes Association – Type 2 Diabetes Webcast

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  • Facts about care and treatment options, complications which can occur
  • Focuses on ethnicity as factor for Type 2 diabetes
  • Self testing on knowledge at end of Webcast

American Diabetes Association – Approaches to Treating Type 2 Diabetes Webcast

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  • Approaches to treatment of type 2 diabetes
  • Survival tips/keys to treatment
  • How diabetes can “get on our nerves
  • Self testing on knowledge at end of Webcast

Medscape from Web MD Diabetes and Endocrinology

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  • Conference coverage on recent related conferences, Webcasts available
  • Online medical journals
  • Specialty specific homepages
  • Medline access for health care professionals
  • Must create sign on/password

MD Consult

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  • Health care providers can sign up for generic accounts and have access to hundreds of diabetes management materials including types, treatments, carbohydrate counting, diet, exercise, sexuality, complications
  • Can individualize documents to your own institution
  • Graphics and pictures included to provide visual cues to patients and family members
  • Materials specific to the aging, pediatric, women, general population

My Discovery from Discovery Health

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  • Diabetes and Conditions Encyclopedia
  • Topics include gestational diabetes, African Americans and diabetes, causes of diabetes, complications, what to do to prevent diabetes emergencies
  • Hypoglycemia, hyperglycemia, ketoacidosis
  • Video on blood sugar crises, erectile dysfunction, affects of stress and smoking on diabetes
  • Organ function and diabetes