MENDING THE DIABETIC MIND WITH MASTERMINDS

Date: 19th August to 23th August 2022

Venue: Amanora Fern Club, Pune.

COURSE DETAILS

FOUNDATION COURSE:

The innovative Clinical Fellowship Program of Mind-Body Medicine in Diabetes and Endocrinology has been created by collaboration of experts in field of Diabetes, Endocrinology, Psychiatry, Psychology, Nutrition, Public health, Yoga and Mind-Body Medicine, and offers the latest in the field made possible by the joint effort of SPHERE (Society for Prevention, Healthcare, Education and Research) and Center For Behavioural Medicine (CBM) Trust, Pune.

The Fellowship Program has a modular structure, is learner-centric and will proceed through interactive sessions, group learning and supervised casework with panel of internationally recognized experts.

WHAT IS THIS FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM ABOUT?

This program focuses on conceptual update on Diabetes as mind-body disorders, as well as practical/experiential feel of evidence-based mindbody approaches to assessment and intervention for comprehensive management of Diabetes throughout its life cycle from managing the pre-diabetic condition to optimizing management of Diabetes without complications to managing Diabetes with complications. An additional agenda is addressing wellbeing of healthcare professionals themselves. An in-person training workshop will be followed by on-line supervised case-work & discussion sessions.
The fellowship will offer training to health professionals to acquire competence in clinical application of Mind-Body Medicine through improvement in their understanding on health psychology and brain health and behaviours.

CONCEPTUAL UPDATE ON MIND-BODY MEDICINE IN DIABETES MANAGEMENT:

  • Mind and Diabetes interface: clinical and biological overlap
  • Challenge of vicious cycle of Diabetes, stress and allostasis
  • Conceptualizing comprehensive Psycho-Neuro-Immune- Endocrine (PNIE) model of Diabetes
  • Understanding mind health physiology and neuroendocrinology.
  • Grasping ‘Rhythms of health and healthy variability’ especially significance of sleep and autonomic rhythm in disease progression and attempted restoration
  • Conceptualizing Pillars of Mind-Body health in the context of Diabetes – The Vital Rhythms of health and mind
  • Evidence base summary of MBM in diabetes

PRACTICAL/EXPERIENTIAL SESSIONS:

  • 1)  Applying research insights to clinical assessment:
  • 1.1   Conducting multidimensional PNIE assessment of Diabetes and forming Clinical Global Impression (CGI-D)
  • 1.2   Conducting Mind-Body Health assessment and forming Clinical Global Impression- H (CGI-H)
  • 2)  Learning Mind-Body interventions for multi-level corrections in psycho-neuro-immune-endocrine dysfunction in Diabetes including stress & allostatic load management
  • 3)  Translating assessment into intervention: How to formulate plan of management by conducting multidimensional Mind-Body assessment of Diabetes/obesity/endocrine disorders, including self-report measures, clinician assessment and new generation investigations
  • 3.1  Learning Mind-Body techniques
  • 3.1.1  The Relaxation Response cluster focusing on Attention Regulation and Autonomic Regulation (PMR, Biofeedback, Autogenic Training & Imagery Training, MBSR, techniques derived from Yoga)
  • 3.1.2  Behavioural activation cluster focusing on positive feedback
  • 3.1.3  Vital rhythms cluster focusing on augmentation of sleep, nutrition, physical fitness & vitality, sexual health
  • 3.1.4  Problem resolution cluster focusing on cognitive problem solving through introspection/reflection and implementing action plan
  • 3.2  Dealing with barriers & challenges in management through motivational techniques like SDM (Shared Decision Making), A C T ( A c c e p t a n c e & C ommi tme n t T h e r a p y ) a n d MI (Motivational Interviewing) for changing health habits, nonadherence and relapse, addictive behaviors etc.
  • 3.3  Combining need-based pharmacotherapy with mind-body interventions
  • 4)  Sustainable wellbeing and resilience in Diabetes for multi-level corrections in psycho-neuro-immune-endocrine dysfunction in Diabetes, obesity & endocrine disorders
  • 5)  Healthcare Professional Wellbeing
  • 6)  Experiential feel of mind-body basics and techniques: practicing self-awareness and self-regulation
  • 7)  How to implement Mind-Body Medicine in Diabetes clinics: Stepped-up care approach of Diabetes management in clinical practice
  • 8)  Future directions – research opportunities and opportunities of acquiring advanced skills

WHAT DOES THE FELLOWSHIP INCLUDE?

The fellowship includes short lectures, panel discussions, workshops, case studies, activities, dinner meets, expert talks, group disscussions and interactive sessions, assignments, self-learning, case work and practice skills. Practical/experiential sessions.

WHO CAN ENROLL FOR THE PROGRAM?

  • Physicians
  • Endocrinologists
  • Diabetologists
  • Psychologists and Counselors
  • Dietitians
  • Diabetes Educators and Nurses
  • Physical Therapists and Occupational Therapists
  • Health Coaches, health professionals, Medical students dealing with diabetes and endocrine diseases
  • All HCPs managing diabetes patients

SPECIFIC LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

  • At the end of fellowship, Candidate will be able to:
  • (1) Interpret and understand mind body health status of Diabetic subjects
  • (2) Perform mind and body health assessment of patients
  • (3) Identify problem areas in mind body status
  • (4) Provide solution /intervention for dealing with specific mind body problems
  • (5) Set up a MBM clinic at your center.
  • (6) Use MBM skills for self-upliftment and wellness.
  • Total duration of fellowship spread over approximately 3 months (100 hours) which includes:
  • (1) One 4N/5D Residential Workshop (40 hours).
  • (2) Followed by 5 online live 4 hours sessions on case work every 15 days for 3 months (20 hours discussion).
  • (3) 40 hours of case work/self study.
  • Fellowship Fee :
  • Rs. 40,000 + GST

(Approximately Rs. 47,200 with Twin Sharing Room inclusive of Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner)

  • Total Capacity :
  • 50 Seats

(First come basis)

  • Valedictory :
  • at SYNAPSE CONFERENCE-2023

The innovative Clinical Fellowship Program of Mind-Body Medicine in Diabetes and Endocrinology has been created by collaboration of experts in field of Diabetes, Endocrinology, Psychiatry, Psychology, Nutrition, Public health, Yoga and Mind-Body Medicine, and offers the latest in the field made possible by the joint effort of SPHERE (Society for Prevention, Healthcare, Education and Research) and Center For Behavioural Medicine (CBM) Trust, Pune.

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Venue

  • Amanora The Fern Hotels and Club

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