Welcome. My name is Devine. This is going to be a quick podcast, but it's something that I think is going to be very helpful for people that are studying for step one to step three.

And in this podcast, this is episode 514 we're going to be talking about the

framework for endocrine testing the framework for endocrine testing. This is just something I will truly generally

in my heart want you all to get down pat. If you understand this it will just

make so many things in endocrinology make a lot of sense to you. Instead of you just blame just

make a lot of sense to you. Instead of you just blending memorizing things.

So there are two major rules I want to go over here and I'll try to give some examples to really buttress these points.

Now, we know that whenever we're dealing with an endocrine disorder,

there's usually one of two problems we face.

Either you have excess of a hormone or you have a deficiency of a hormone.

I'm going to say that again. You either have excess of a hormone or you have a deficiency of a hormone. So the

thing is typically in endocrinology. Endocrinology is one of these

disciplines that follows very set principles.

Typically in endocrinology, when you want to diagnose something, you'll usually start with some kind of screening test,

and then if that screening test is

positive you will then proceed to a diagnostic test a confirmatory test. So the rule here, the two rules here is at number one, whenever you're

dealing with an endocrine disorder that involves a deficiency.

Whenever you're dealing with an endocrine disorder

that involves a deficiency,

your confirmatory test, your diagnostic test,

usually is going to be some kind of stimulation test. That's row number one.

Rule number two is that if you're dealing with an endocrine disorder that involves some kind of

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