An IDF Centre of Education (IDFCE) is an institution selected to form part of an international voluntary network to initiate, facilitate, conduct, coordinate and evaluate high-quality education for health professionals in diabetes and other related chronic diseases.
The goals of the IDFCE are to:
- Increase accessibility to high quality interdisciplinary diabetes education for health professionals.
- Increase regional capacity to respond to the diabetes epidemic.
- Build a network that supports centres to advance their education programming and influence system change.
The first round of applications was launched in 2009. Six institutions were designated as International Diabetes Federation Centres of Education. They are:
- Assoçiacão Protectora dos Diabéticos de Portugal (APDP), Lisbon, Portugal
- Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialties Centre & Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai, India
- Asociación Colombiana de Diabetes (ACD), Bogotá, Colombia
- Vivir con Diabetes Education and Information Centre, Cochabamba, Bolivia
- Associação Nacional de Assistência ao Diabético (ANAD) Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Baqai Institute of Diabetology and Endocrinology (BIDE), Karachi, Pakistan
For more information about this network, contact education@idf.org.
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