Development Of Educational Tools For Doctors In Training On Inpatient Diabetes Management

The prevalence of diabetes among inpatients is increasing. The National Diabetes Inpatient Audit in 2015 showed that 17% of inpatients have diabetes of whom about 36% are on insulin therapy. The audit highlighted sub-optimal care quality, with harm resulting from inpatient care across several areas of diabetes care. The National Diabetes Mortality and Morbidity project was set up to understand factors contributing to inpatient diabetes harm. The key recommendation arising from this project is mandatory education on inpatient diabetes for all staff. It is critical to take widespread action to improve training and education in inpatient diabetes care in order to reduce and avoid serious diabetes harms occurring in the future.This paper describes educational tools we have developed for staff who care for inpatients with diabetes. IDEA (Inpatient Diabetes Education through Animation) is a novel, effective, unique and appealing model which we have developed, piloted and evaluated in the inpatient diabetes care setting. The INDIE web portal (INpatient DIabetes Education tool for doctors in training) provides easy access to educational resources (knowledge self-assessment, links to educational material, guidelines, guidance and IDEA videos). Around 94% of doctors in training (n=19) rated IDEA videos as relevant and 83% have rated them as useful and will change their practice. Likewise 94% of pharmacists (n=17) rated IDEA videos useful and relevant and 76% rated that the videos would change their practice. Copyright (c) 2017 John Wiley & Sons.