Advanced Diabetic Foot Screening
Louise Fisher, Michelle Weddell, and Fiona Main
Advanced Diabetic Foot Screening
Overview:
Improve your confidence in diabetic foot screening with this practical, in-depth webinar series designed for healthcare professionals around the world.
Diabetic foot complications remain one of the most serious and costly consequences of diabetes, yet many cases of ulceration and amputation are preventable with early identification of risk.
Effective screening is the first and most important step in protecting patients from avoidable harm.
The Advanced Diabetic Foot Screening webinar series has been designed to help clinicians strengthen their assessment skills and take a more structured, evidence-informed approach to diabetic foot examinations.
Across three focused sessions, the series explores the structural, vascular and neurological factors that contribute to ulcer risk, giving you a comprehensive framework for identifying early warning signs before tissue breakdown occurs.
Delivered by experienced clinicians and educators, each session combines practical guidance with clinical insight to help you translate screening findings into meaningful risk stratification and patient management strategies.
Whether you are looking to refresh your knowledge or deepen your confidence in diabetic foot assessment, this series will help you refine your screening approach, improve early detection of risk factors and support better long-term outcomes for patients living with diabetes.
Learning Outcomes:
Advanced Diabetic Foot Screening: Structural
1. Apply national international guidelines
2. Recall and apply evidence to your practice
3. Understand, apply, and critique the information for
- Structural assessment
- Functional assessment
- Changed in lower limb and musculoskeletal/structural system from longstanding or uncontrolled diabetes
4. Apply advanced structural diabetic screening to your clinical practice
Advanced Diabetic Foot Screening: Vascular
1. Apply national and international guidelines
2. Recall and apply evidence to your practice
3. Understand, apply, and critique the information for:
- Diagnosis, prognosis, and management or peripheral arterial disease
- Signs & symptoms of arterial insufficiency
- 3-P's: pulses, phases, and pressure that contribute towards changes in lower limb and vascular system from longstanding or uncontrolled diabetes
- Use of ABPI and TBPI
- Using WIFI classification tool to diagnose CLTI
4. Apply advanced vascular assessment for diabetic screening to your clinical practice
Advanced Diabetic Foot Screening: Neurological
1. Apply national and international guidelines
2. Recall and apply evidence to your practice
3. Understand, apply, and critique the information for
- Sensory testing - light touch, pressure, temperature, vibration, and pain
- Motor testing - muscle loss, power and tone, reflexes, co-ordination, balance, gait disturbanced
- Changed in lower limb and neurological system from longstanding or uncontrolled diabetes
- Autonomic changed - skin quality, anhidrosis, fissuring, hair loss, nail quality
4. Apply advanced neurological diabetic screening to your clinical practice
Educators:
Louise Fisher
Michelle Weddell
Fiona Main
Louise Fisher is an Advanced MSK Podiatrist and Clinical Educator with extensive experience in musculoskeletal podiatry, orthotic therapy and lower limb biomechanics.
Michelle Joanne Gibson is a lecturer, podiatry educator and clinician with extensive experience in higher education, and diabetic foot care. She is known for her strong clinical and academic leadership and was recognised as Lecturer of the Year in 2021.
Fiona is an Advanced Practice Podiatrist with over 25 years’ experience in diabetes and high‑risk foot care. She leads education across NHS Highland and has played a key role in developing innovative, technology‑enabled pathways to improve outcomes.
Get to know the educatorsCOURSE FEATURES
Price
£25 per webinar
Duration
90 minutes per webinar
Date
On Demand
CPD Accredited
No
Certificate
Yes
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