The Diabetes Experience

Catalog description

This course is designed to enhance and expand student’s knowledge base, empathy, and ability to effectively work people that have diabetes through hands on learning and personal experience with the cornerstones of Diabetes Management. The class approach will have each student participate in the management of diabetes as a patient and as a peer educator. Student activities will include attending education classes on the basics of diabetes care, self-recording various aspects of their daily lifestyle including food and exercise log, daily intake of “placebo” medications, blood glucose monitoring, and injection of placebo insulin (injections will be for 1 week of the class with the option of wearing a placebo insulin pump). Students will also get a firsthand experience of motivational interview and goal setting to make changes as if they were the person with diabetes. This course matches the CU Mission and SOP curricular goal to develop student pharmacists in mind and spirit to provide value-based patient centered care for service to the world. Prerequisites: (PHAR 452 or 6530 ).