Lesson plan — Diabetes: DM class 1

The moments of the class

• Review — Hypertension. Diagnosis, tests, drugs, and targets.
• Pre-class simulation. The case before the content.
• Opening. Objectives and organization of the session.
• Class — General diabetes. Concepts, types, and diagnosis.
• T1DM and T2DM. Differences that change clinical reasoning.
• Complications. Recognition, prevention, and follow-up.
• Wrap-up. Points that will be revisited in the treatment class.

1. Review — Hypertension

Ten minutes. The review revisits the confirmed diagnosis, the tests that change management, the drugs with doses, and the targets — the same cardiovascular risk that diabetes worsens, and the same consultation in which the two diseases appear together.

2. Pre-class simulation

Fifteen timed minutes, before any slide. The button opens the hub catalog already on this class's chapter: the student picks the patient there, without searching the whole library.

• Consultation conducted in writing, with item-by-item feedback at the end.
• It is the group's baseline — what the class does before seeing the content.
• What was left unanswered here is what the class comes to answer.

3. Opening

• Overview of diabetes, T1DM, T2DM, and complications.
• How to follow the slides in class and return to the material afterwards.
• Where to find PACK, the FCM Treatise, the checklists, and the supplementary materials.

4. Class — General diabetes

T1DM, T2DM, and complications.

5. Axes of the class

• Essential concepts. What diabetes is and how hyperglycemia presents.
• T1DM and T2DM. Mechanisms, presentation, and clinical differences.
• Diagnosis. Criteria and interpretation in the patient's context.
• Complications. Acute events, chronic complications, and routine care.

6. Supporting material

7. Wrap-up

• Revisiting the concepts that underpin the therapeutic choices.
• Questions that need to be settled before class 2.
• The next class starts with a short review of this one.

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