Male Reproductive
Endocrinology Clinic:
-Goals and Objectives:
To learn skills related to history, examination, assessment, and plan
for ambulatory patients with male infertility, sexual dysfunction or
hypogonadism. Patients seen in this venue include problems leading to
male infertility. Residents are exposed during the endocrine clinic to the
full spectrum of male reproductive pathology, however, since our program
subspecializes in this area we offer this clinic as an elective to
residents wishing to acquire more expertise in this area.
-Teaching Methodology:
The patient-based mentored assessment of historical finding,
examination and therapeutic plan is implemented. Each patient is seen by
a faculty attending along with the resident. Pragmatic and theoretic
issues along with diagnostic and therapeutic strategies are discussed.
Ethical and socioeconomic issues related to sperm donation, accessibility
of assisted reproductive technology and sex selection are discussed within
this format.
-Method of Evaluation:
All subspecialty residents are evaluated at the end of this rotation
by the attending faculty should they choose to do this elective.
