November is National Diabetes Month, and World Diabetes Day falls on November 14. [Dates per public health-observance calendars — worth confirming against the current year’s official designation before this goes live.]
Diabetes doesn’t stay in one specialty’s lane. It shows up as a foot wound in a wound-care clinic, a heart failure admission in cardiology, and an insulin-pump question in a pregnancy clinic — long before or entirely apart from an endocrinology visit. This list is built for the clinicians managing those diabetes-adjacent moments, not the endocrinologists managing diabetes as the primary diagnosis (see our companion list, What an Endocrinologist Would Want Primary Care to Know About Diabetes, for that angle).
That’s a real gap, not a small one. A cardiologist adjusting heart failure medication, a podiatrist treating a wound, and an obstetrician managing a pregnant patient’s glucose are all making decisions that interact with a diabetes regimen someone else prescribed — usually without a diabetes specialist in the loop for that particular visit. The newer drug classes especially (weekly basal insulins, SGLT2 inhibitors used outside diabetes indications) have moved into general use faster than cross-specialty training has caught up.
The list
Association of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists
Automated Insulin Delivery in Pregnancy: Practical Strategies for Optimizing Outcomes
- Live Course · In-Person
- 1 credit
- Starts Oct 13, 2026
- Paid · fee on provider site
Why it made the list Chosen because pregnancy changes insulin management substantially, and that’s rarely covered in general diabetes CME.
See the activityClinical Care Options, LLC (dba Decera Clinical Education)
Modernize Your T2D Management Practice: Practical Strategies for Integrating Next-Generation, Weekly Basal Insulin Therapies
- Online Course
- 1 credit
- Free
Why it made the list Weekly basal insulin is new enough that a lot of non-endocrinology prescribers haven’t touched it yet — chosen as a practical, short introduction.
See the activityAssociation of Diabetes Care & Education Specialists
2026 Insulin Pharmacotherapy Update: Insulin s Place in Diabetes Management
- Online Course
- 1.5 credits
- Paid · fee on provider site
Why it made the list A broader insulin-therapy update, chosen to round out the newer-therapy items with something more foundational.
See the activityDiabetic foot complications
American College of Physicians
Beyond the Guidelines: How Would You Manage This Diabetic Patient with a Foot Infection?
- Online Course
- 5 credits
- MOC · ABIM
- Paid · this provider typically $50–375
Why it made the list Case-based, chosen because diabetic foot infections are one of the most common reasons a diabetic patient ends up in a non-endocrinology clinic at all.
See the activity#30150: Diabetic Foot Ulcer Prevention and Care — TRC Healthcare-NetCE. Online Course, 5 credits (fee status not listed in our catalog — confirm with the provider). The prevention-focused companion to the case-based item above — chosen for the earlier point in the same problem.
Medmastery GmbH, CME Consultants
Diabetes Mellitus Essentials
- Online Course
- 5.5 credits
- Included in subscription · $149–179/yr
Why it made the list A general-foundation course, included for any non-endocrinology clinician who wants the baseline before the more specific items on this list.
See the activityWhere diabetes meets heart failure
Heart Failure (HF) Medication Management: Sodium-Glucose Cotransporter-2 Inhibitors (SGLT2i) — Online Course, 1 credit (fee status not listed in our catalog — confirm with the provider). SGLT2 inhibitors sit at the exact intersection of diabetes and heart failure management — chosen for clinicians managing either condition who need the other side of the picture.
Clinical Care Options, LLC (dba Decera Clinical Education)
Missed Opportunities in Heart Failure Care: Supporting Early Diagnosis With Cardiac Biomarkers and Maximizing Treatment Potential with SGLT2 Inhibitors
- Online Course
- 1.25 credits
- Free
Why it made the list The companion piece to the item above, chosen for the earlier-diagnosis angle rather than treatment alone.
See the activityWhat to do next
None of this replaces an endocrinology referral for a patient whose diabetes is genuinely hard to control — these activities are aimed at the more common situation, where diabetes is a secondary factor in a visit that’s primarily about something else, and the clinician in the room needs enough current knowledge to not work against what the patient’s other prescriber is doing.
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