Diabetes

When you have completed this course you will know about:

• type 1 and type 2 pre-existing diabetes and gestational diabetes
• risks associated with diabetes in pregnancy and how to mitigate and monitor for them
• how to care for women with diabetes in the pre-conception, antenatal, intrapartum and postpartum periods
• Medication used to managed diabetes.

Dr Charlotte Hickson MRCOG (2024)
Charlotte Hickson is a specialty registrar in the East Midlands North deanery. Her interests are maternal medicine and foetal care. 

Dr Naima Shatry (2025)
Dr Naima Shatry is a specialty registrar in the East Midlands North deanery. Her interests are maternal medicine, foetal care and Medical education.

Dr Dipanwita Kapoor (2025)
Dr Dipanwita Kapoor is a Consultant Obstetrician at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust. She has special interests in maternal medicine and medical education.

This course is intended to help clinicians gain core knowledge for O&G training and the MRCOG examinations. It can also be used by O&G consultants to refresh their knowledge of the area or for teaching.

The content of this course relates to the following Capabilities in Practice (CiPs) and key skills:

CiP 1: Clinical skills and patient care
Relevant to all key skills CiP 1

CiP 6: Developing self & others
Commits to continued learning
Manages other early pregnancy complications

CiP 10: Emergency obstetrics
Manages concerns about fetal wellbeing
Manages suspected pre-term labour/SROM
Manages labour
Manages intrapartum fetal surveillance
Manages induction, augmentation of labour
Manages emergency birth, postpartum problems
Manages maternal collapse
Manages pre-existing medical conditions in the pregnant woman

CiP 12: Non-emergency obstetrics
Manages conditions arising in pregnancy
Manages fetal concerns
Supports antenatal decision making
Manages complications affected by lifestyle
Manages a postnatal consultation

CiP 13: Non-discrimination and inclusion
Awareness of social wellbeing
Mental and physical health associations

CiP 14: Health promotion
Promotes a healthy lifestyle
Promotes illness prevention

Further details about each CiP can be found within the O&G Core Curriculum 2024 Definitive Document, available here.

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Diabetes in Pregnancy: Management of Diabetes and its Complications from Preconception to the Postnatal period. NG3. London: NICE; 2015.

National Institute for Health and Care Excellence. Intrapartum Care for Women with Existing Medical Conditions or Obstetric Complications and their Babies. NG121. London: NICE; 2019.

Mohan M, Baagar KAM, Lindow S. Management of diabetic ketoacidosis in pregnancy. The Obstetrician & Gynaecologist 2017;19:55–62.