YDEF Diabetes Technology Course

The Young Diabetologist and Endocrinologist (YDEF) Technology course is back!

This course is one of the best technology courses going, is highly valued by attendees and allows for an immersive three-day crash course in everything diabetes and technology including hands-on experience with insulin pumps and sensors and sessions by the country’s leading experts in type 1 diabetes and technology.

This course is designed to be residential, and attendees are expected to stay on site unless agreed prior. This course, including accommodation, is free to attend, but a £200 deposit is required to ensure attendance which is refunded on full participation of the course (i.e. attending all three days).

⚠️ Your registration will not be confirmed immediately. After course registration closes, you will be emailed to inform you of the result of your application. If successful, a £200 deposit is required to confirm your registration.  

You must be a member of Society for Endocrinology to attend - if you are not already a member you can join online. 

The course will cover:

• Insulin pumps
• Interpreting CGM
• Hands-on experience with pumps and CGM
• Workshops covering pregnancy, exercise and closed-loop

This course is always popular and often oversubscribed.  Places are limited, sponsors are supporting the event for the benefit of trainees, and many of your trainee colleagues will have been unable to secure a place on the course. Although YDEF courses are free to attend, the cost of providing this course to you is over £800. There are no places available for people who have attended the course previously. We will check your details against our list of past attendees and if you apply to re-attend, this will be dealt with as a probity issue.   If you register for this course and fail to attend without adequate notice or falsify any details on the registration form, you will be placed onto a low-priority list for future YDEF events. Please note that your details (only name and GMC number) will be stored by YDEF securely for up to 5 years. Unfortunately, over the last few years whilst running the course, there have been a number of probity issues, such as falsifying details on registration forms in order to get a place ahead of other applicants, and clinical incidents at the venue. Therefore, we now collect your GMC and deanery details on the registration form, and we reserve the right to contact your training programme director with any probity concerns, or only when absolutely necessary, refer to the GMC.

Prior to attending the course, please ensure you have completed the Glooko Academy Modules on "Continuous Glucose Monitoring" and "Hybrid Closed Loop". The Glooko modules are an excellent resource, and completing them will ensure you have a base knowledge so that you can get the most out of the course. Certificates showing completion are required for registration.

It is recommended that delegates bring a laptop to participate in all sessions.  If this is not possible a smartphone will be suitable.

Trainees in ST7 will be prioritised, followed by ST6, ST5, ST4 and then those not in training programmes. Within each grade, it is first-come-first-serve. The course is for adult endocrinology and diabetes registrars in training only. Consultant applications and trainees from other specialties will not be considered. After signing-up, your registration will not be confirmed immediately. We will email you after registration closes to inform you whether your sign-up was successful or not. At this point, if successful, we will ask for a £200 deposit to confirm your registration.  You must be a member of SfE to attend.

This course has been instigated and organised by YDEF, in collaboration with DTN-UK. Sponsors have contributed funding towards this event in return for exhibition space.