Dental podcast available from NDEP.

The National Diabetes Education Program (NDEP) recently produced a series of new podcasts for health care professionals titled Clinical Diabetes Management. The podcasts interview specialists from pharmacy, podiatry, optometry and dental (PPOD) professions on preventing diabetes complications and working as part of the diabetes care team. Each interview has a corresponding summary podcast. Taken singly or as a series, these free digital recordings promote the team approach to comprehensive diabetes care and provide simple care recommendations to clinicians about making cross-disciplinary referrals.

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JoAnn R. Gurenlian, RDH, PhD, ADHA's representative to PPOD, said, "On behalf of the PPOD Work Group, we hope that you will share these podcasts with your colleagues in health care. Diabetes is a pandemic, and we all need to learn more to help those with this disease and those at risk."

There are podcasts focused on each PPOD clinical discipline. The dental podcast includes information about prevention and treatment of periodontal disease as an important part of diabetes care. The podcast is designed to give busy primary care professionals and other clinical care providers, helpful tips to use in their practice for their patients with diabetes.

Accessing the podcasts is easy:

Go to http://www.cdc.gov/podcasts/

1. Click on the "Browse" tab

2. Scroll down to "By Series"

3. Select "Clinical Diabetes Management" and click "Go"

Alternatively, users can search by key word "diabetes" to find additional podcasts by the NDEP and others at CDC.

Use and enjoy the podcasts one at a time or download the entire series. Help ADHA and NDEP spread the word about diabetes control and prevention by sharing the podcasts with your colleagues. To learn more about NDEP, visit www.YourDiabetesInfo.org.

Source: NDEP

This edition of Extra was compiled by Jean Majeski.