Pediatric Endocrinology Clinic
Trainees learn skills related to history, examination, assessment, and plan for ambulatory patients with endocrine problems referred to a pediatric subspecialty endocrine clinic. Patient-based mentored assessment of historical findings, examination and therapeutic plan is developed by the trainees in concert with a faculty attending. Pragmatic and theoretical issues are discussed, as are practical, cultural, confidentiality, ethical and socioeconomic issues, in this format. Patients seen in this venue include those with a wide range of endocrine problems excluding Diabetes Mellitus who are seen in the Pediatric Diabetes Clinic. Some of the endocrine problems seen in this context are: