IDF Centres of Education
An IDF Centre of Education (IDFCE) is an institution or organization selected by IDF to form part of an international voluntary network to initiate, facilitate, conduct, coordinate and evaluate high-quality education for healthcare professionals in diabetes and other related chronic diseases.
The goals of the IDFCE programme 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.
Download a presentation about the IDF Centre of Education programme (ppt, 718KB).
The first round of applications was launched in 2009. The following six centres have been designated as IDF Centres of Education:
- 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, Bogotá, Colombia
- Vivir con Diabetes Education and Information Centre, Cochabamba, Bolivia
- Associação Nacional de Assistência ao Diabético, Sao Paulo, Brazil
- Baqai Institute of Diabetology and Endocrinology, Karachi, Pakistan
The second round of applications will be launched in 2011.
For more information about the programme, contact decs@idf.org.
