Endocrine Abstracts

A 43-year-old lady with no significant PMH presented with recent onset of polyuria and polydypsia shortly after commencing an SSRI. Cranial diabetes insipidus was diagnosed on water deprivation test and good clinical response to DDAVP was seen. Anterior pituitary function was normal though prolactin elevated. MRI demonstrated a 4 mm enhancing lesion in the hypothalamus in association with a bright pituitary stalk. CXR was normal, ESR and serum ACE negative. The differential di...

The General Medical Council’s publication ‘Outcomes for Graduates’ places emphasis on doctors being able to integrate biomedical science, research, and scholarship with clinical practice. In response, a new paradigm of assessment was introduced for the intercalated Bachelor of Science (iBSc) in Endocrinology program at Imperial College School of Medicine. The approach involves authentic “active learning” assessments analogous to tasks encountered in a ...