Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Millions of men worldwide take anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) to boost muscle growth, but risk psychosis, cardiomyopathy, stroke and death. Users avoid stopping AAS because they are fearful of low testosterone symptoms including sexual dysfunction, depression and suicidality. To avoid these symptoms, men often illicitly self-medicate a 2–12-week course of drugs including selective oestrogen receptor modulators to boost testicular function ...

National training surveys demonstrate that medical trainees feel under-prepared for practice and under-prepared for managing emergencies, such as diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA). It is challenging for traditional clinical training to guarantee first-hand exposure to all medical emergencies as they occur at random and often out-of-hours, resulting in only minority of students witnessing many emergencies first-hand. It is unfeasible for most universities to provide in-person simulat...