The department is a centre for diabetes patient care, training, education, basic science, clinical and epidemiological research. Since 2003, the department has developed a nation-wide training programme for doctors, nurse educators and foot-care technicians. The Department of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Christian Medical College (CMC), Vellore has won the Royal College of Physicians (London) Excellence in Patient Care Awards 2017 under the category of Medical Education and Training award. The award was in recognition for the department’s outstanding work in advancing medical education and training. It also pointed out that the programme, since 2004, evolved into a distance education programme, training 736 doctors in secondary care diabetes so far.
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