Endocrinology is a medical specialty that concerns diseases caused by excessive or insuffcient levels of hormones, and disorders of the organs that produce them (pituitary gland, thyroid gland and adrenal glands, among others). It also concerns metabolic and nutritional diseases.
Diabetes and obesity are on the rise in our society. These conditions must be kept under control in order to prevent the multiple medical problems to which they ultimately lead. This also includes theoretical and practical knowledge of the corresponding diagnostic and therapeutic techniques and dietary measures, and of the rules of
Preventive Medicine relating to these fields.
The specialty covers the
physiology and pathology of the endocrine glands, of the synthesis and secretion of hormones, of the metabolism and peripheral actions of hormones, of the reciprocal interactions and influences of some hormones with others and in relation to various metabolic processes, and of the consequences of hormonal dysfuction. It also covers the critical analysis and development of methods necessary for the determination and biological reading of hormones, along with the preventive and rehabilitiation medicine associated with these types of processes.
The aim is to provide future specialists with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills required for healthcare, and potentially for research and teaching.
Subcutaneous Blood Glucose Control Sensor for Diabetes patients
Content of the specialty of Endocrinology
- Study of the processes of hormone synthesis and secretion, metabolism, mechanism of action, effects and interaction with other signals, messengers, local factors, and so on.
- Knowledge of the metabolism of the different basic nutrients, minerals, and vitamins.
- Study of theoretical bases of nutrition in a healthy subject and the foundations and development of clinical nutrition.
- Study of the different endocrine, metabolic or nutritional diseases from an epidemiological, clinical, diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitative, and preventive perspective.
- Learning of the bases of the nutrition of ill patients and implementation of nutritional plans (dietotherapy) through oral, enteral or parenteral nutrition.
- Knowledge and critical analysis of the different methods needed for the diagnosis and treatment of endocrine metabolic disease (radioimmunoanalysis, IRMA, ELISA, etc.).
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