Endocrinology Course Scope

• Hospitals need Doctors capable of treating diabetes, the most common endocrine disorder. With hundreds of thousands of diabetics in India, it is common sense that endocrinologists will always be in demand to administer the right treatment.
• Medical centres across India also need medical specialists, endocrinologists to be specific good at diagnosing thyroid disorders, pituitary disorders, adrenal disorders, male reproductive disorders, metabolic bone disorders, disorders of growth

Here are a few scopes in the field of Endocrinologists:

Endocrinology Course Subjects

Endocrinology is an advanced study mainly of the endocrine system including all its diseases, secretions and conditions that impact the hormonal imbalance in a human body. The endocrine system consists of glands that secrete hormones into the circulatory system in the body.

The endocrine condtributes the systems to homeostasis focus of this course. The endocrine also examines common clinical presentations and treatment of endocrine diseases. Some of the major course objectives are given below:

• Lear the normal structure, functions, and the important components of the endocrine systems in the body.
• To get hands on advanced training in the regulation of hormonal secretion from the major glands of the body.
• To train eligible candidates in the scopes of etiology, pathophysiology, pathology, diagnosis, treatment, and prognosis of the clinically important disorders.

Main subjects of the course are:

• • Diabetes Mellitus
  • Thyroid
  • Neuroendocrinology and pituitary disease
  • Growth and maturation
  • Adrenal gland and adrenal hormones
  • Reproductive endocrinology
  • Parathyroid gland, Calcitrophic hormone and bone metabolism
  • Obesity
  • Endocrinology of pregnancy
  • Endocrine tumour syndromes
  • Endocrine changes in critically in patient
  • Cardiovascular endocrinology
  • Immunology and endocrinology
  • Clinical epidemiology relevant to endocrinology
  • Endocrine involvement in other medical disorders and management of the relevant disorders
  • Relevant theoretical aspects of surgical endocrine procedures 
  • Relevant radiological and medical aspects
  • Basic science
  • Hormone assay procedures
  • Record keeping
  • Computer databases for dealing with endocrine disorders 
  • Clinical, laboratory and basic research including statistical methods.
  • Medical Nutrition therapy
  • Medical audit
  • Extramural training rotation should be encouraged

Endocrinology Course Eligibility

UG: Candidates must have passed 10+2 with at least 50% marks in aggregate with Physics, Chemistry and Biology as core subjects. Independent entrance tests for UG programme (MBBS) are conducted by various state, central and private universities.

PG: Candidates must hold a degree in Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery along with a good score in entrance tests held for PG programme conducted by various state, central and private universities.

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