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Swedish title Utvecklings- och barnendokrinologi
English title Developmental and Pediatric Endocrinology
Course number 2676
Credits 1.5
Responsible KI department Institutionen för fysiologi och farmakologi
Specific entry requirements
Grading Passed /Not passed
Established by The Board of Doctoral Education
Established 2014-09-09
Purpose of the course
Intended learning outcomes After the course the students will be able to:
Understand what the most important endocrine systems are during growth and development and how these systems act and what functions they have.
Integrate the obtained knowledge in student's own doctoral projects.
Account for widely used models to assess regulation of growth and fertility.
Contents of the course The course aims to give students an overview of endocrine systems and organs particularly important during development and childhood. Accordingly, the course covers wide range of endocrine systems and glands related to pediatrics and development including GH/IGF system, thyroids, corticosteroids, sex hormones etc. By purpose the course is not covering diabetes (specialized courses covering these particular field are available within KI).
The course aims to bring together the most well-known scientists in the field. Students will have the possibility for informal discussion with the experts during meet-the-professor sessions and lunches together. The last course several prominent scientists were lecturing including Prof. Olle Söder, head of department of Women and Children Health at Karolinska, Prof. Lars Sävendahl, secretary general of European society for pediatric endocrinology, professors Kerstin Brismar, Jens Mittag, Claude Marcus, Lars Hagenäs, Anna Nordenström and Sam Okret, all from Karolinska as well as our international guests Prof. emeritus Eberhard Nieschlag, the founder and former director of the center of reproductive medicine and Andrology (Muenster, Germany) as well as former president of the European Society of Endocrinology, and Kirsi Jahnukainen (Helsinki University). This year there will be some new well-known names.

There will be two practical sessions. One session (two afternoons) is focused on physiology of bone growth; students will culture intact bones ex vivo. Another session is related to reproduction; students will practically explore testicular and ovarian morphology.
Teaching and learning activities Lectures, formal and informal discussions, meet-the-professor sessions, laboratory work, demonstrations and recommended literature.
Compulsory elements Attending the lab work is compulsory. Up to two lectures can be missed, but every missed lecture has to be compensated by literature work.
Examination Examination is designed the way to facilitate the use of obtained knowledge in student's own research. We ask students to present their project in content of the course in a form of 15 minutes presentation. The presentation should make a connection between the project and any endocrinology subject discussed during the course and the potential impact of this connection on the student's project.
Literature and other teaching material Books:
Pediatric Endocrinology by Mark A. Sperling. Third edition, SAUNDERS ELSEVIER
Williams Textbook of Endocrinology by Henry M. Kronenberg and others. 11th edition, SAUNDERS ELSEVIER
Review articles will be distributed to the students prior the course.
Course responsible Andrei Chagin
Institutionen för fysiologi och farmakologi


andrei.chagin@ki.se

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