AIM DM Teaching and Management Clinic

We will be starting a daily DM Management clinic on June 22^nd, 2006. Junior and Senior Residents on OPD blocks will work along with Evelyn Thompson and an attending to provide for consultative or follow up care for patients of other AIM providers. Patients who have not met their goal for DM control should be referred to this clinic. No referral sheet is necessary, one just needs to write “refer to DM management clinic” on the bottom of your clinic notes. The PFA will schedule the patients through the EPIC systems. Please be sure your patient has updated med lists, a1c values, on your electronic WEBCIS notes. Please also offer specific instructions if there are particular things you want the team to follow up on, on act on.

Along with this, there will also be daily afternoon “DM Teaching Clinic” where patient can be referred for group teaching and individual counseling. Again no referral form is needed, and one just needs to write “refer to AIM DM teaching clinic”. The scheduling will again be through EPIC.

Situation or patients to consider for this new service include:

1. Diabetic and prediabetic patients who will benefit from DM teaching classes
2. Diabetic patients who are not meeting the ADA goals of therapy.
3. Patients who need additional counseling on medications regimen and other DM related treatments.
4. Newly diagnosed diabetic patients.
5. Patients who need one to one counseling on self management measures, such as glucometer use, or insulin injection.
6. Providers who may be temporarily unavailable in clinic, may refer to this DM team to provide closer follow up and advancement of diabetes care.