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Diabetes Simulation: An Effective Method for Teaching Diabetes to Medical Students

Reprint requests to The Diabetes Educator, 367 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago, IL60610. Traditional teaching about diabetes to health care professionals is based on didactic, theoretical instruction. This method, however, does not adequately address the practical difficulties associated with the lifestyle changes that patients must make to successfully manage their diabetes. Although it is necessary for primary health care providers to have a sound, theoretical knowledge base, a lack of appreciation of the considerable practical and psychosocial difficulties faced by a person with diabetes can be a barrier to providing appropriate advice, which ultimately could compromise patient compliance. In this article, we describe the use of diabetes simulation as a tool for