The training program in endocrinology and diabetes includes experience in the following clinical programs.
Inpatient Care
Endocrinology consults on approximately 200 in-patients per year. There are no dedicated endocrinology beds, although there is capacity to admit patients to endocrinology on the clinical teaching units.
Outpatient Care (approximately 8,000 visits annually)
- Diabetes (3,400 visits annually)
- Individual and group-based diabetes education
- Insulin pump and continuous glucose monitoring program
- Type 2 diabetes clinic
- Transition to adult care program
- Diabetes camp (Camp Banting)
- Outreach clinics including North Bay and Pembroke
- Two-hour emergency hotline for 900 patients and families with diabetes
- Endocrinology (3,000 visits annually)
- General pediatric endocrinology
- Disorders of sex development team (combined with urology, gynecology, genetics, psychology, neonatology and medical ethics)
- Diversity clinic/transgender health team (together with adolescent medicine)
- Growth hormone clinic
- Neuro-Oncology clinic (with oncology, neurology, neurosurgery, radiation oncology)
- Adrenal suppression surveillance
- Newborn screening (congenital adrenal hyperplasia, congenital hypothyroidism)
- Bone Health (500 visits annually)
- General bone health and endocrinology health clinic
- Osteoporosis clinic
- Intravenous bisphosphonate treatment program
- Advanced bone diagnostic and monitoring techniques such as bone biopsies
- Internationally recognized for clinical expertise and excellence
- Centre for Healthy Active Living (CHAL) (1,100 visits annually)
- Pediatric regional assessment and treatment centre for severe complex obesity
Clinical Problems and Diseases Evaluated and Followed
Diabetes
- Type 1, Type 2
- Cystic fibrosis related diabetes
- Monogenic diabetes
- Diabetes secondary to medication
General endocrinology
- Assessment of growth and puberty
- Thyroid conditions
- Disorders of the adrenal gland
- Pituitary disorders
- Childhood cancer survivors at risk of hormone deficiencies
- Transgender youth
- Disorders of sex development / ambiguous genitalia
- Disorders of calcium regulation
- Rickets
- Polycystic ovarian disease
- Metabolic syndrome
- Dyslipidemia
- Bone health assessments for children and teens with osteoporosis due to chronic diseases and their treatment
- Genetic bone conditions
- Skeletal dysplasias
- Disorders of calcium regulation
- Severe complex obesity with co-morbidities