1. SpR Teaching Programme Diabetes and Endocrinology
Peninsula Deanery 2012
Topics Leading
Endocrine Diabetes consultant
January
No meeting
Feb 10th When targets are not enough:
NB 2nd • Difficult diabetes (mechanism and management Paddy
Friday (not of hypos) English
first) • Diabetes in the elderly and other special groups
March 2nd Diabetes, Conception & Pregnancy:
• Pre-pregnancy counselling
• Complications of diabetes in pregnancy Rob Dyer
• (NICE) management of diabetes in pregnancy
Screening and diagnosis of gestational diabetes
April 13th Feedback:
NB Not the From DUK (7-9 March Glasgow) and BES (19-22 March
first Friday Harrogate) ALL
of the
month
May 4th Insulin types and delivery: Pens, pumps and more
Helen
Lockett
June 1st Neuroendocrine tumours: Endocrine complications
• Carcinoid etc. of Malignancy AMB
• Ectopic hormones
June 20th Obesity + Anorexia whole day
• Obesity and health in ending illness (Paddy
The Devon English) Paddy
Hotel, • Obesity and bariatric surgery (Mark Daly ) English,
• Anorexia and refeeding (Mark Daly) Mark Daly,
Exeter • The Endocrine causes of obesity Steve Creely
• Obesity and diabetes Katerina Kos
• Diet, Exercise, Drugs and Surgery
• Adipokines and obesity (steve creely)
July 6th Salt and Water: Roderick
• Hyponatraemia • Diabetes Insipidus Warren
• SIADH Tabinda
Dugal
August
No meeting
Sept 7th Thyroid eye disease
Steven
Venue to be
Creely
confirmed
Oct 5th Gonadal function:
Jonathan
• Infertility
Pinkney
• Women – 1º, 2º amenorrhoea, oligomenorrhoea,
Kate Evans
PCOS
• Gynaecomastia

2. Oct 11th Endocrine training day (combined Severn /
peninsula) NB not at Buckfast abbey but in Bristol Bristol
Nov 2nd Peri-operative management of pituitary patients.
Daniel
Pituitary radiotherapy
Flannigan
Imaging techniques in endocrinology
Dec 7th Hypoglycaemia
(Roderick): • Hypo’s in a non- Mollie D
• Detection and diabetic patient Roderick
management (Mollie). Warren
• Transplants
Dec 10th Epidemiology and Pathophysiology of Diabetes:
• The ‘epidemic’ of diabetes
Andrew
• Pathophysiology of diabetes
Hattersley
• Mechanisms of hypoglycaemia and loss of
awareness

3. SpR Teaching Programme Diabetes and Endocrinology
Peninsula Deanery 2013
Topics Leading
consultant
Jan
No meeting
Feb 1st Hypertension:
• Management of difficult hypertension Jamie Smith
• Pressure waves and arterial stiffness
March 1st Hypoadrenalism:
• Primary and secondary hypoadrenalism Jonathan
• Polyglandular and other causes of Addison’s Pinkney
• Prevention and management of a crises
April 5th Feedback:
• From DUK and BES ALL
May 3rd Children:
Mollie
• Diabetes • Growth, Puberty
Donohoe
• Transition care and Development
June 7th Diabetes Update:
Roderick
• A debate about the NICE guidelines.
Warren
• DCCT, IFCC, and eAG unravelled
June 20th
Andrew
Whole day Genetics and diabetes
Hattersley
July 5th Thyroid Cancer: diagnosis, treatment and follow-up. A
look at the RCP guidelines Rob Dyer
Aug 2nd
No meeting
Sept 6th Pituitary 1:
• Masses – • Prolactinomas
?Cate Lissett
presentation, testing, • Hypothalamic
management. syndromes
Oct 4th Macrovascular disease in Diabetes:
• When to refer?
Jamie Smith
• Management of diabetes in the acute setting: TIA/
Stroke, ACS – NSTEMI/STEMI
Oct Endocrine training day (combined Severn /
Whole Day peninsula) ?Exeter
Nov 1st Adrenals 1:
• Incidentalomas Mark Daly
• Tumours
Dec 6th Thyroid:
• Hyper & hypo thyroidism Bijay Vaidya
• Thyroid storm and myxoedema coma

4. SpR Teaching Programme Diabetes and Endocrinology
Peninsula Deanery 2014
Topics Leading
consultant
Jan
No meeting
Feb 7th Diabetes and the Foot:
• Ischaemia, neuropathy, hyperglycaemia and
Mollie
ulcers
Donohoe
• Charcot’s arthropathy
• Imaging of the diabetic foot.
March 7th Calcium and PTH:
Roderick
• Calcium metabolism
Warren
• Hyper & hypocalcaemia, causes and management
April 4th Feedback:
From DUK and BES ALL
May 2nd Gonadal function:
?Jamie Smith
• Men – 1º, 2º failure, gynaecomastia
?alistair watt
• Erectile dysfunction
June 6th Pituitary 2: • Growth hormone
• Acromegaly deficiency Cate Lissett
June Inpatient diabetes Daniel
Whole Day • National strategy and audits ( Flanagan
• Diabetes emergencies (DKA etc) Helen
Lockett
July 4th Eyes:
Tabinda
• Diabetic eye disease • Thyroid eye
Dugal
(Tabinda Dugal) disease (Bijay
Bijay Vaidya
Vaidya)
August
No meeting
Sept 5th Rob Dyer
Diabetes care models, commissioning care, research
?Duncan
networks
Browne
Oct 3rd The law, driving and Insulin pumps
diabetes (& endocrine Alistair Watt
problems): Helen
• Insulin and Group 1 Lockett
and 2 licences
Oct Endocrine / Severn Endocrine training day
Whole Day
Nov 7th Diabetes & the Liver: Lipids:
Mark Daly
• Steatosis / NAFLD • Classification
(JP)
• NASH • Management
Dec 5th Hypercortisolaemia:
• Cushing’s disease Paddy
• Cushing’s syndrome English
• Iatrogenic

5. SpR Teaching Programme Diabetes and Endocrinology
Peninsula Deanery 2015
Topics Leading
consultant
Jan
No meeting
Feb 6th Diabetes and renal disease:
• Screening & prevention
AMB
• Management of renal complications: Hb, Ca2+,
PO4-
March 6th MEN: Genetic endocrine
• Classification syndromes and Bijay Vaidya
• Management testing
April 3rd Feedback:
From DUK and BES ALL
May 1st Patient Education in Diabetes:
• The DAFNE/TIFA principles
• DESMOND Helen Lockett
• ‘Sick-day’ and hypo rules
• DVLA and diabetes
June 5th Adrenal 2:
• Phaeochromocytoma Jamie Smith
• Conn’s
June
TRURO
Whole Day Topic to be confirmed
Consultants
In Truro
July 3rd Late effects of cancer
Cate Lissett
August
No meeting