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Out of Practice: Why Retirement Doesn’t Always Mean You Stop Seeing Patients

santen When Endocrine Society past-president Richard J. Santen, MD, achieved “emeritus” status at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, he was far from being done with practicing medicine. That’s when he decided to continue seeing patients throughout southwest Virginia from the comfort of his home and with help from telehealth technology and the Federally Funded Community...
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The Time Is Always Now: The Endocrine Society’s Call to Eliminate Racism in Endocrinology

march 2022 cover With the publication of “Eradicating Racism in Endocrinology: An Endocrine Society Policy Perspective” in the January issue of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, the Endocrine Society formally calls for policies to address racial and ethnic inequities in the endocrine workforce and in access to care. James Baldwin began his 1956 essay “Faulkner and...
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Endocrine Society’s In-Training Exam Predicts Fellows’ Success on ABIM Board Exam 

Endocrinology fellows and their program directors can use performance on the Endocrine Society’s in-training self-assessment tool to gauge how likely fellows are to pass the American Board of Internal Medicine-Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism Certification Examination (ABIM-ECE), according to a new study published in the Journal of the Endocrine Society.   The study found clinical endocrinology fellows’...
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Unprecedented: How COVID-19 Jump-Started Diabetes Care Innovations

EN1120_cover-small The Endocrine Society has been leading the charge for adopting innovative diabetes care models since 2018. However, the specter of the COVID-19 pandemic has forced the entire healthcare industry to rethink how patients are treated, resulting in an unprecedented wave of innovation that could revolutionize how care is delivered. In early March, Robert A. Gabbay,...
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Virtual Endocrinology: The Rise of Telemedicine During COVID-19

july cover How clinicians treat patients has been drastically reimagined during the COVID-19 pandemic due to social distancing requirements. Since patients still need to see their doctors one way or another, telemedicine has filled the gap and has been embraced by both the healthcare community and patients alike. Chirag R. Kapadia, MD, is an endocrinologist at Phoenix...
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Best Laid Plans: Managing COVID-19 in Hospital Settings

A series of papers to be published across a variety of journals provides a potential roadmap for treating COVID-19 patients within a hospital setting. It tells practitioners in these healthcare environments how to prepare for the unexpected. On April 30, an article appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine titled “Best Practices for a...