2019 Changing the Diabetes Paradigm: CGM Technologies in Clinical Practice

2019 Changing the Diabetes Paradigm: CGM Technologies in Clinical Practice is organized by University of Virginia (UVA) and will be held on Apr 13, 2019 at Fontaine Research Park, Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America.

Accreditation and Designation Statement:
The University of Virginia School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of Virginia School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The University of Virginia School of Medicine and/or The University of Virginia School of Nursing Continuing Education, an accredited provider(s), awards 6.5 hours of participation (consistent with the designated number of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)TM or ANCC contact hours) to participants who successfully completes this educational activity. The University of Virginia School of Medicine and/or The University of Virginia School of Nursing Continuing Education maintains a record of participation for six (6) years.

The University of Virginia School of Nursing Continuing Education is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

The University of Virginia SONCE awards 6.5 contact hours for nurses who participate in this educational activity and complete the post-activity evaluation.

Successful completion of this CME activity, which includes participation in the evaluation component, enables the participant to earn up to 6.5 MOC points in the American Board of Internal Medicine's (ABIM) Maintenance of Certification (MOC) program. It is the CME activity provider's responsibility to submit participant completion information to ACCME for the purpose of granting ABIM MOC credit.

Program Description:
This dynamic and interactive program will focus on enhancing your knowledge, skills, and competencies to effectively communicate and collaborate with the primary care provider team and patients with diabetes. Evidence shows that effective patient-provider dialogue enhances clinical efficiencies, facilitates patient empowerment and engagement, and contributes to better patient adherence. Topics planned for discussion are ambulatory glucose profile (AGP) with interpretation, AGP for diagnostics and therapeutics, UVA’s approach to merging clinical and engineering perspectives in diabetes management, using continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) to enhance lifestyle changes, incentivizing technology use in practice, and integrating CGM data in electronic medical records. There will also be a moderated discussion, a hands-on activity using glucose sensors, insulin pumps and pens a round table discussion and solutions of case reviews.

Learning Objectives:
At the completion of this program, participants will be able to: 
• State the background, rationale, construction and nomenclature of ambulatory glucose profile and how to measure its various components
• Describe the process for sequencing, interpreting and completing a longitudinal analysis of AGP reports and how it is linked with patient behavior modification and continuous glucose monitoring
• Recall the role technology plays in glucose monitoring, glucose sensing and insulin delivery, what can be learned about diabetes management from mathematical and simulated models and how clinical decisions and patient performance are impacted by real-time continuous glucose monitoring
• Explain the principals for lifestyle change as it pertains to continuous glucose monitoring and the impact of helping type 1 and 2 diabetic patients improve their glycemic control
• Demonstrate aspects associated with continuous glucose monitoring and the insulin infusion pump/pen
Interpret continuous glucose monitoring data and document it for reimbursement
• Discuss how continuous glucose monitoring data are, or can be, integrated into the electronic medical record.

Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.