1. Perform a critical history and physical examination on patients with endocrine/metabolic problems.
2. Develop a concise differential diagnosis.
3. Select and interpret diagnostic tests for common endocrine conditions including thyroid, adrenal, pituitary, gonadal, bone, lipid disorders, and diabetes.
4. Describe the relevant pathophysiology of the more common endocrine/metabolic diseases including diabetes mellitus, thyroid hypo- and hyperfunction, disorders of calcium metabolism and pituitary and adrenal disease, and explain clinical presentation of patients in terms of the pathophysiology.
5. Display knowledge of systematic approaches to conditions encountered less frequently but applicable across the spectrum of endocrine disease and organ systems which depend upon negative feedback regulation. These may include such conditions as multiple endocrine neoplasia and polyendocrine failure syndromes, pheochromocytoma, peptide or steroid hormone producing tumors or congenital adrenal hyperplasias.
6. Be familiar with preventive strategies in management of other chronic endocrine/metabolic diseases.