Diabetes Service

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The service provides one advanced training registrar position suitable for a portion of training in endocrinology/diabetes or general/medicine diabetes training.

The service is divided into a number of sub-specialist teams which provide in-depth experience in their area of application. The registrar has active exposure in all of these other than the community-based educator programme. We can arrange involvement here if required. These sub-specialist teams include:

• Diabetes and pregnancy with an emphasis on Type 1 and Type 2 management and insulin infusion pump therapy
  
  • Team members – endocrinologist, specialist nurse educator, midwife and dietitian
  
  
• A multidisciplinary team weight management programme for the morbidly obese
  
  • Team members – endocrinologist, specialist nurse educator, physiotherapist, dietitian, psychologist
  
  
• Multidisciplinary high-risk foot clinic
  
  • Team members – podiatrist, orthotist, wound care nurse, vascular surgeon
  
  
• Insulin pump teaching programme
  
  • Team members – endocrinologist, specialist educators, dietitian, psychologist (for children and young adults)
  
  
• Hospital based diabetes education team
  
  • Team members – specialist educators working closely with the diabetes registrar
  
  
• Adolescent and young adult programme
  
  • Team members - diabetes specialists, specialist educators, psychologist, dietitian
  
  
• Pharmaceutical trial unit and clinical research team.
  
  • Team members – endocrinologist, research co ordinator and research nurses.
  
  
• Community hospital outreach programme
  
  • The registrar attends monthly outreach programmes in three small community hospitals with the attending physician
  
  

Who we are:

• Clinical director
• Four consultants (leading programmes in weight management, insulin pumps and pregnancy)
• One registrar.
  

The unit maintains close collaboration with the Waikato Clinical School in conjoint research activities.

Papers published

• Gibbons V, Conaglen JV, Lillis S, Naras V, Lawrenson R.
  Epidemiology of thyroid disease in Hamilton (New Zealand) general practice.
  Aust N Z J Public Health. 2008 Oct;32(5):421-3