Mexico: Joslin Diabetes Center and the Carlos Slim Health Institute announce Alianza

The capacity of the personnel in the health centers of Mexico will be strengthened.

The Joslin Diabetes Center and the Carlos Slim Health Institute (ICSS) announced an alliance to develop online interactive educational materials that allow the evaluation by skills of first contact doctors, who serve the most vulnerable population in Mexico.The educational material will cover issues such as the prevention and treatment of type 2 diabetes, as well as its complications and morbidity load.

“We have long discussed the way in which the Joslin and ICSS center could collaborate and impact the lives of millions of non -transmissible chronic diseases, such as diabetes.We hope that this initiative will contribute substantially to deal with the diabetes epidemic in Mexico, ”said Dr. Martin Abrahamson, senior vice-president of JOSLIN medical affairs and associate professor at Harvard University Medicine School of Medicine.

For his part, Dr. Roberto Tapia, general director of the Carlos Slim Foundation, commented: “Our mission is to strengthen the capacity of health personnel working in the first contact centers in Mexico and Latin America to advance prevention andtreatment of diabetes and other chronic noncommunicable diseases.This platform allows the training and evaluation of doctors through virtual cases, strengthening the abilities of doctors responsible for serving thousands of diabetic patients.In a first phase there will be more than 500 doctors who benefit from this platform. ”

This initiative contributes to the National Strategy for the Prevention and Control of Obesity and Diabetes of the Federal Government, launched in October 2013.

This collaboration is led at the Joslin Center by Dr. Enrique Caballero, Director of International Professional Education and director of the Diabetes Initiative for Latinos, who with his team will be responsible for the design of clinical cases, which are simulated situations ofPatients with diabetes who face particular challenges.The cases will be written by teachers of the Joslin Center, who will share their experience in specific areas of diabetes care, ensuring that the content, language and cultural implications are appropriate and aligned with the needs and context that patients and health professionalsThey face in Mexico.

In addition to the clinical cases developed by the Joslin Center, the National Institute of Medical Sciences and Nutrition Salvador Zubirán (INCMNSZ), contributes with specific cases and provides its academic guarantee to certify the acquisition of competencies by doctors who are trained through thisplatform.This effort develops under the leadership of Dr. David Kershenobich, General Director of the INCMNSZ, and Dr. Sergio Hernández, coordinator of the Integral Center for Patient Care with Diabetes of the Institute itself.

Cases will be available on the ICSS Virtual Teaching Platform, which has an extensive educational offer for doctors, nurses and health personnel in general, where to date more than 10 thousand health professionals have studied.

These organizations anticipate that this initial program is the basis for future educational activities and projects that contribute to improving the lives of patients with diabetes and their families in Mexico.

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