Endocrine Abstracts

The Republic of Belarus gained 20 years of experience in teaching patients self-control of diabetes mellitus and hypothyroidism.Learning technique consists of work in small groups (5 to 6 people). Patients with newly diagnosed disease are subjects to training (one step). Then weekly at outpatient clinics they attend classes on specific subjects (duration of class is 1 hr). Each class consists of a short lecture, analysis of clinical cases, a class discus...