Become a Certified Diabetes Outpatient Educator (CDOE)

Are you a Nurse, Pharmacist, or Dietitian who works with patients who have diabetes?  Become a Certified Diabetes Outpatient Educator (CDOE) and learn how to better help your patients with diabetes.  

Diabetes educators are healthcare professionals who focus on educating people with and at risk for diabetes and related conditions to achieve behavior change goals which, in turn, lead to better clinical outcomes and improved health status. Diabetes educators apply in-depth knowledge and skills in the biological and social sciences, communication, counseling, and educational fields to provide self-management education/self-management training.

Services provided by diabetes educators are eligible for third party reimbursement. In addition to coverage for diabetes self-management training/education (DSMT/E), services for discipline-specific counseling, such as medical nutrition therapy provided by dietitians/nutritionists, or medication therapy management services provided by pharmacists, are available.

The CDOE organization assists their educators by providing continuing education programs with the latest therapies and technologies related to diabetes. CDOEs network with one another and collaborate to share best practices for diabetes education.

The CDOE Certification Course and Exam are only held once each year, and space is limited - Apply now to get a seat!

Qualifications to Become a Certified Diabetes Outpatient Educator (CDOE):

• CDOE Candidates must have a minimum of three (3) years experience as a registered nurse, dietitian, and/or pharmacist (RN, RD, or RPh) or may petition the Credentialing Committee in collaboration with the Executive CDOE Board for review.
  
• CDOE candidates must be licensed in Rhode Island as a RN, RD or RPh.
  
• CDOE candidates must have twelve (12) hours of diabetes experience within the last two (2) years either as part of your usual employment or via participation in volunteer work, diabetes support groups, health fairs, screenings, etc.
  

Steps to becoming CDOE: 

1) Use the registration form below to apply for the CDOE Certification Course

2) Attend all four (4) sessions of the CDOE Certification Course

3) Successfully pass the CDOE Certification Exam

4) Observe a CDOE teaching and successfully deliver teaching under observation by a CDOE within nine (9) months after passing the CDOE exam

Registration Fees:

CDOE Course Registration Fee $599

Registration fee includes:

• Course materials/handouts via electronic download
• Continuing education credits
  
• CDOE Certification Exam
  

Individuals may attend the course for continuing education without seeking certification