Good practice recommendations on paediatric training programmes for health care professionals in the EU.
Pediatr Diabetes
; 13 Suppl 16: 29-38, 2012 Sep.
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ABSTRACT
Part of the SWEET Project EU (European Union), Better Control in Paediatric and Adolescent Diabetes Working to Create Centres of Reference, was specifically to examine the training of health care professionals (HCPs) across the EU. Several types of information were collected during 2009, and these included a literature search, workshops of the SWEET members, examination of the data collected by the Hvidøre Study Group and the Diabetes Attitudes, Wishes, and Needs (DAWN) Youth initiative, and a questionnaire distributed to SWEET members and professional colleagues who cared for children and young people (CYP) with diabetes. It was clear from the information collected that there was no European or global consensus either on a curriculum for the training of the paediatric diabetes multidisciplinary team (MDT) or individual professions in paediatric diabetes. A minority of countries had well-established training but, for the majority, there was little standardisation or accreditation. Moreover, most countries did not have available courses for training the diabetes MDT and training was not mandatory. Of the courses that were available more were accredited for doctors and nurses but fewer for the other professions. As a consequence, the majority of HCP posts in paediatric diabetes do not demand prior experience in the specialty. Standardised accredited training and continuous professional development (CPD) opportunities are severely limited. The SWEET Project supports a standardised, accredited approach to training and CPD of the MDT and for individual professions. As a consequence, a curriculum for the training of the MDT was developed, and this is now ready for implementation.
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Pediatria
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Pessoal de Saúde
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Guias de Prática Clínica como Assunto
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Educação
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União Europeia
Tipo de estudo:
Evaluation_studies
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Guideline
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Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Adolescent
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Child
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2012
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Article