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In January 1990, as partial fulfillment of a 5-year contract to train Soviet health professionals, a six-person team from the International Diabetes Center went to Moscow to present a program on diabetes education and management to 45 of the USSR's leading endocrinologists and 20 physicians from Moscow's Central Institute for Advanced Medical Studies. The IDC team found a nation faced with major problems and shortages but filled with physicians and patients eager to learn and ready to act. Diabetes education as practiced in the United States is unknown in the Soviet Union, but through training programs such as this, the Soviets are updating and expanding their knowledge of diabetes education and management.

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