JPSIM Journal of Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine J Pak Soc Intern Med 2709-8729 2710-0804 Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine 10.70302/jpsim.v1i1.2004 jpsim.v1i1.2004 Review Article Structured Type 1 Diabetes Education Programs – An Unmet Need in Pakistan Ahmad Farina Z Waseem Muaaz Humayun Malik Asif doctormalikasif@gmail.com * Milton Keynes University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, UK 2Dorset University Hospitals, UK *Correspondence: Malik Asif Humayun (doctormalikasif@gmail.com) 16 12 2020 2020 1 1 8 11 04 09 2020 08 10 2020 Copyright © 2020 The Author(s) 2020 The Author(s) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Structured type 1 diabetes education aims to teach the key self-management skills of carbohydrate counting and flexible insulin dosing, while developing a full understanding in the patient about type 1 diabetes, the action of basal and bolus insulin, management of illness and about the importance of complication screening to maintain long term health.

Structured type 1 education courses are not currently available in Pakistan and with the advent of modern technology use in the management of T1 diabetes, we need to train and upskill our people living with T1D. Insulin is the third most dangerous drug on the formulary and it is extremely important to ensure the safe use of this drug by our patients. It is crucial to develop and monitor such training courses in Pakistan.

We give a brief history and overview of structured type 1 education courses for people living with T1 diabetes.

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