Welcome. My name is Divine. 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 framework for endocrine testing.

This is just something I will truly, genuinely, in my heart, want you all to get down

path.

If you understand this, it will just make so many things in endocrinology make a lot of sense

to you, instead of you just blinding 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 a 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.

Role number two is that if you're dealing with an endocrine disorder that involves some

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