Education
Samatvam runs educational activities for both patients and their families, and for those who treat them. Beginning 1986, Samatvam has pioneered several innovative programs for patient health education, including “Diabetes self care basic” and “Diabetes self care intensive” – 2 periodic structured modular self care training programs, training India’s first diabetes specialist nurse educator and first diabetes foot specialist – podiatrist, developing a range of socioculturally relevant learning resource materials for patients and families, conducting residential camps for children and youth with diabetes, conducting monthly non-residential diabetes health and awareness camps in the community (perhaps the largest number of camps in the world for any diabetes care institution), dissemination of health knowledge through mass media (print, TV and electronic) etc. A large number of young doctors, postgraduate students and health counselors have undergone fellowship, observership and enrichment training at our institution.
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