The goals for the pediatric residents who rotate on the Endocrine rotation are the following:

• Thyroid: understand the pathophysiology of thyroid problems in children and infants; be able to order and interpret appropriate thyroid function tests.
  
  
• Growth and Development: understand normal growth patterns in children and adolescents including pubertal variations; interpret bone age x-rays and understand their significance; be able to order and interpret screening labs for disorders of growth.
  
  
• Puberty: understand normal puberty including cadence of puberty and milestones for boys and girls; be able to differentiate benign pubertal variants from abnormal pathology; understand basics of evaluation of pubertal disorders.
  
  
• Adrenal: understand pathophysiology and management of congenital adrenal hyperplasia; perform screening tests for Cushing's syndrome; understand pathophysiology of adrenal insufficiency and management of adrenal crisis.
  
  
• Diabetes: understand and perform management of DKA; understand and perform outpatient management of IDDM.
  
  
• Pituitary: understand basics of growth hormone therapy; management of Diabetes Insipidus/SIADH; perform and interpret general screens for pituitary disorders
  
  
• Turner syndrome: understand pathophysiology of Turner syndrome and be able to list and evaluate problems associated and basics of management of this disorder.