ILOs
- Understand how to diagnose diabetes and the pathophysiological processes that cause the different types of diabetes.
- Appreciate WHO diagnostic criteria for Diabetes, and understand the pathophysiological basis of diabetes.
- Outline the definition of diabetes mellitus
- List the symptoms of diabetes
- List all the criteria that underpin a diagnosis of diabetes based on international consensus
- Explain what HbA1c is, and how it can be erroneously low or high
- Describe the algorithm to approach new-onset hyperglycaemia in people not known to have diabetes
- Outline all the different types of diabetes
- Contrast the difference in Type 1 DM and Type 2 DM
- Explain the acute complications of insulin deficiency
- What do urine and blood ketone tests look for, and what is their use?
- Explain what different capillary ketone values mean
- Compare and contrast HHS and DKA
- List the criteria that confirm a diagnosis of DKA
- And similarly, list the criteria that confirm a diagnosis of HHS
- Explain the pathogenesis of Type 1 DM
- Outline an individual’s lifetime risk of developing Type 1 DM
- Which factors have been linked to an increased risk of Type 1 DM?