Praktisk Medicin launches education on insulin-treated type-2 diabetes

The need for continuing education for doctors is great and Praktisk Medicin is one of Sweden’s largest platforms for information and continuing education for doctors and other healthcare professionals. Several new educations are now being launched, one of which focuses on insulin-treated type-2 diabetes.

Praktisk Medicin is visited by 370,000 unique visitors every month, the majority of whom are healthcare staff. Many doctors use the training platform PM Academy, where more than 15,000 training courses have been completed in the past two years. An education in insulin-treated type-2 diabetes is now being launched, where PM Academy has collaborated with Professor Björn Eliasson, a diabetes doctor at Sahlgrenska University Hospital.

– Diabetes is a common disease whose treatment requires that we doctors are well-trained, treatment with insulin not least. The education at Praktisk Medicin is developed to convey knowledge about a focused area in a simple, inspiring and effective way that can fit into the doctor’s stressful everyday life, says Professor Björn Eliasson.

The education is designed to inspire and motivate learning by using questions and answers where the doctor is challenged with patient cases interspersed with factual questions. The training has been deliberately done so that it only takes about 10 minutes to complete, but that the transfer of knowledge becomes effective when there are interactions. In addition to digital education, the education is produced in physical brochures that are distributed to a large number of health centers to reach even more doctors at their workplace.

Recently, Praktisk Medicin opened up training platforms throughout the Nordic region, and statistics from Norway show that the interest from healthcare staff was above expectations and had more completed training than Sweden.

– The doctors who have completed training fill in questionnaires afterwards and 85-95 percent believe that the training has helped them in their clinical everyday life and over 90 percent would like to do more training and recommend it to their colleagues. More trained care staff increases patient safety in care. We know that doctors, nurses and other healthcare staff are facing a stressful autumn and have therefore adapted and produced these educations that are of high quality while they can be completed in a short time, says Johan Bloom, editor of Praktisk Medicin.

Click here to get to the training.

For more information:

Johan Bloom, editor of Praktisk Medicin

[email protected], 0733-64 84 90

The training in insulin-treated type-2 diabetes has received independent financial support from the pharmaceutical company Sanofi.