Elective rotations in Endocrinology are two weeks in duration and will train residents through outpatient Endocrinology clinic and inpatient consultations at UCLA, with a special emphasis on the core literature in Endocrinology. If interested, please reach out to Doug to…
The overall goal of this curriculum is for residents to become competent in diagnosing and managing outpatients with common endocrine disorders, to be able to diagnose and manage patients in the hospital with more severe or acute presentations of disease,…
Definition: thyrotoxic crisis or thyroid storm refers to the life-threatening exacerbation of thyrotoxicosis accompanied by fever, delirium, seizures, coma, vomiting, diarrhea, jaundice Typical Presentation: Tachycardia, tremor, goiter, warm skin, lid retraction, exophthalmos, pretibial myxedema, Irritability, Heat intolerance and sweating, Palpitations,…
Endocrinology clinic occurs every Friday afternoon in Clinic C. Residents will manage patients with more severe or acute endocrine diseases during rotations on the medicine wards, ICU and ER. Supervision of the Endocrinology clinics will be provided by an Endocrinology fulltime…