LeadershipAdvocacy & Gov't AffairsHistoryCareers at Joslin
Newly DiagnosedManaging DiabetesChildhood DiabetesNutritionExerciseJoslin Clinical GuidelinesOnline Diabetes ClassesDiscussion BoardsJoslin Clinical ResearchInfo for Healthcare Professionals
• Make an AppointmentAdult ClinicPediatricsEye CareWeight Management ProgramsAsian ClinicLatino Diabetes InitiativeAbout Joslin ResearchVolunteer for Clinical Research StudiesInfo for Healthcare Professionals
Directory of Joslin InvestigatorsDiabetes Research Center Alumni ConnectionVolunteer for Clinical Research Studies
Media RelationsNews ReleasesInside Joslin
Affiliated CentersPharma & DeviceCorporate EducationPublicationsProfessional EducationCause MarketingInternationalCommercialization and VenturesHealthcare Professionals
Give NowWays to GiveEventsGet InvolvedCorporate & Foundation SupportOur DonorsDevelopment Team

For Healthcare Professionals and Their Patients

New teaching tool for insulin injection: Take Your Best Shot

Our new Take Your Best Shot program helps clinicians educate patients on proper insulin    self-administration. This useful program full of colorful illustrations covers topics such as:

  • guidance on types of insulin
  • how to inject with a pen or a syringe
  • choosing injection sites, skin thickness and needle size
  • injecting without pain

. . . and much more! Includes a flipchart with handouts.

Resources for Healthcare Professionals

Clinical resources developed and written by the professional staff of Joslin will keep you up to date with the latest diabetes medications, treatment options, and research.

Whether you’re looking for an accessible guide to caring for your patients, need to know more about the pathophysiology of the disease and its progression, or need a handy, keep-in-your pocket copy of Joslin’s clinical guidelines, you can find it here.

Resources to Help Educate your Patients

Whether you’re looking for booklets, handouts, flipcharts or DVDs, we have the tools you need to teach your patients the diabetes self-management skills they need. Our patient education resources have all been written by Joslin’s doctors, nurse practitioners and educators and used with patients at Joslin Diabetes Center and Joslin’s Affiliates across the country.

 

Co-Branding and Custom Development

Joslin’s variety of patient and professional education materials are available for sale from Joslin with discounts allowed for quantity purchases. Branding or co-branding as well as custom covers designed to fit within your institution’s diabetes program are also possible.

 

Featured Items

  • Joslin's Pocket Guide to Advancing Diabetes TreatmentTM
    The Joslin's Pocket Guide to Advancing Diabetes TreatmentTM was written by clinicians at Joslin specifically with the busy primary care physician in mind. This is a time-saving resource that assembles information valuable to advancing or intensifying diabetes treatment.

     

 

  • Joslin's First Steps ProgramTM
    The Joslin's First Steps ProgramTM was created for healthcare providers and educators to use with their patients who have diabetes, the Program includes two Flipcharts, a Leader’s Guide; Joslin’s First Steps Booklet and five First Steps Handouts. The individual components can be purchased separately or as a package.

 

  • Joslin's Meal Planning Guide 
    This colorful, 4-page Guide can be used by a dietitian as a part of Medical Nutrition Therapy (MNT), as well as by all diabetes educators when teaching about general nutrition as part of diabetes self-management education (DSME).