Diabetes Diagnostic Counselor, DDC a project conceived by Thyrocare to tackle the menace of the lethal diabetes. Under this project, a DDC is educated, trained and equipped to deliver complete diagnostic solutions to a diabetic patient. He identifies, enrolls and manages diabetic patients in his own town or area. He will explore the full potentials of glucose monitor, marketing materials, promotional materials, and of course the brand name of the company and the products like Hba1c, Microalbuminuria, Lipid profile and sugarscan. . In short, the job of the DDC is to identify, enroll and manage as many diabetic patients as possible in their home town and to be a friend and guide in helping them to make ideal usage of the available diagnostic solutions, cost effectively and in-time

Any energetic (need not be young), enthusiastic, educated, ambitious, dynamic individual, who can create career for himself can be a DDC. He knows about diabetes because his own exposure as a DDC student or patient or doctor . He should be fluent in local language and he should be communicating with people from all backgrounds. He should have a fairly good knowledge of English (to follow the training course). He should be interested to do field work. He should have a good convincing skill. He should have a service oriented mind towards the society. The minimum qualification required is a DMLT or HSC

The enclosed Training Application Form. (medical doctors are exempted from training)
Once evaluated you will informed about the next possible dates of training for DDC
You will be trained for 10 hours in our laboratory in Mumbai on tests, technologies and Diabetes.

A 10 hours training programme is essential for a DDC every year. The subjects include diabetes - its diagnosis (the tests and technologies) and management (monitoring and interpretation), communication skills (comfort and convenience), preventive healthcare (for healthy and needy), and operations of Thyrocare (logistics and network). Examinations will be conducted after the training and clearing them will be essential for getting the Counselor Certificate. For training the candidate has to make his own arrangements for boarding and lodging.

For nominal costs, for trained DDC the following will be made available: Blood glucose monitors, Blood glucose strips, Blood glucose reporting forms, Blood pressure Monitors, Sugarscan Bags, Sugarscan booklets, Sugarscan brochures, Sugarscan Tents, Sugarscan T-shirts and promotional materials like banners, brochures, handbills etc..

It is a bag containing all material required for a DDC to do the field work.

• A neat bag to carry the contents.
• A Sugarscan Glucose monitor.
• 25 sugarstrips that comes with the monitor.
• SS advance booking booklet.
• AA advance booking booklet.
• HS advance booking booklet.
• Test and technologies – booklet.
• AA 30 – booklet.
• Sugarscan booklet.
• Company Brochure.

The cost of the bag is Rs.1000

The focus of DDCs as well as the company will be on SugarScan profile a combination of essential tests for the diabetics which includes and also the following individual tests and profiles

1. Blood glucose (or blood sugar)
2. HbA1c (or glucose memory test)
3. Lipro (or lipid profile)
4. Kidleak (or Microalbuminuria)

Effective screening and monitoring has always been the primary requisite of the diabetics who crave to know about the latest advancements in the diagnosis, to help them lead a normal and comfortable life. SugarScan profile does offer precisely the same. An ideal solution for monitoring diabetes, SugarScan also assesses the damage it causes on various systems like heart and kidney. The projected market size for these tests shows a colossal figure that has driven the company to focus on it and it will prove to be encouraging for the DDCs too.

Apart from the SugarScan profile, the DDCs will also be focusing on "aarogyam" profiles targeting the "non-diabetic" population, which are essentially preventive healthcare profiles giving a comprehensive health monitoring solution. There are three profiles under this category, they are:
1. Healthscreen
2. Aarogyam 30
They are considered ideal for anyone who is looking for a healthy or healthier tomorrow. 

• For each Blood sugar done Rs.15.00 (glucometer provided).
• For each Sugarscan, Aarogyam 30, Healthscreen and thyroid, booked Rs.100

Become a DDC and become as a part of the 1,00,000 crore healthcare industry!! Click here for downloading the training application form. Fill in it and send it to us along with proof for educational qualifications, residential qualifications and age . We will evaluate your application and call you for training. You will learn more about diabetes and diagnostic counseling in our training programme as well as strategies to improve your career as a DDC.