Endocrinology

Supervising Committee

Specialist Advisory Committee (SAC) in Endocrinology

Definition of Specialty

Endocrinology is broadly defined as the science of circulating and locally acting hormones, the glandular system which produces them and their roles in health and disease. The specialty of clinical endocrinology encompasses the diagnosis and management of disorders of the endocrine system. Paediatric endocrinologists provide treatment, diagnostic and laboratory analysis and conduct basic and applied research in a wide range of humoral and metabolic conditions of infants, children and adolescents.

General Principles

1. Advanced Training in Paediatric Endocrinology will be supervised by the SAC in Endocrinology with major responsibility taken by the paediatric representatives on the SAC (paediatric endocrinologist appointed by the Australasian Paediatric Endocrine Group (APEG) and a CPPT representative).
   
2. Advanced Training in Paediatric Endocrinology will be for at least three years following satisfactory completion of basic paediatric training and the FRACP Examination in paediatrics. No part of the training prior to the examination will be credited towards Advanced Training.
   
3. The goal of the training program is to produce specialist Paediatric Endocrinologists skilled in diagnosis and management of endocrine diseases and with adequate understanding of the physiology of hormonal regulation in children, adolescents and young adults. This training must be centred on the fundamentals of clinical diagnosis based on history-taking and physical examination.
   
4. Throughout your training, you must have a continuing responsibility for the care of patients in the outpatient setting and the clinical experience must involve patients in all categories of paediatric endocrine disease, both acute and chronic. This includes the management of patients with diabetes mellitus.
   
5. It is highly desirable but not mandatory that the three years of Advanced Training be spent in more than one unit, preferably including a large international unit.
   
6. You are encouraged to complete either an MD or PhD of which 12 months of full-time research will be accredited towards the training program.
   
7. Mandatory requirements must be completed

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