3. Person Centred Optometric care for People with Special Needs

Public Health Response Strategies for Diabetic Retinopathies

What you’ll learn

This self-directed course is designed to provide training in grading diabetic retinopathy. This online Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course contains several parts with information and a final practice quiz session.

There are four modules in this course. Each module has several topics in them; 55 topics in all. Each topic has articles and/or video lessons. You are required to read through each article and watch every video.

The Learning Management System detects and tracks user progress as it captures all digital footprints. The final part is a competency-based exam to test your ability to:

Produce up-to-date, practical guidance for policymakers on the contents, structure, and implementation of national diabetic programmes.
Accurately detect and grade diabetic retinopathies.
Provide appropriate referral plans, according to the recommended public health guidelines.
clinical guidelines that define prediabetes as either impaired fasting glucose or impaired glucose tolerance.
The early identification of prediabetes and knowledge of same is used to delay the progression to diabetes and to potentially prevent the development of chronic complications.
Learn how to formulate public health guidelines for the management of diabetic retinopathies in rural and urban settings.
How and when to initiate and support projects to generate and widely disseminate new knowledge on awareness about diabetes.