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Mentorship
The CBDCE Diabetes Care Education Specialist Mentorship Program was created to promote careers that will lead to a CDCES designation and improve access to much needed diabetes care and education (DCE).
This optional program partners experienced CDCESs with health professionals who are interested in gaining experience in providing diabetes care and education. The program helps individuals looking to become certified accrue experience in order to meet the practice requirement for CDCES.
Being a mentor is personally and professionally rewarding – plus if you are in a mentorship partnership, you can use that partnership as CE for your CDCES renewal. Consider helping a colleague obtain the DCE hours they need to become a CDCES by becoming a mentor.
Mentorship Testimonials
Mentor Eligibility
You’re eligible to become a mentor if you:
- Have been a CDCES in good standing for 3 years
- Currently practice as a Diabetes Care and Education Specialist, providing DCE services
- Have other teaching or mentoring experience
- Agree to complete and submit appropriate mentor and mentee monitoring documentation
- Can verify that the DCE provided includes:
- a process to coordinate educational activities
- the individual’s learning needs and goals
- a curriculum (appropriate diabetes content areas, learning objective, methods of instruction delivery and methods for learning evaluation)
- documentation of the educational activities
- communication to the individual’s primary care provider and/or the referring provider
- regular assessment of the needs of your community and changes made based upon those needs
- regular evaluation of the educational effectiveness and outcomes with results used to make changes in the educational activities