ABSTRACT
One of the first outpatient clinics that Sarah McKenzie had attended when she had started the clinical part of her undergraduate training was a diabetic clinic. A visit to the diabetic clinic was part of the introductory fortnight that took place before the students were allocated to the rotation between the various specialties that formed the bulk of the first clinical year. Armed only with knowledge of normal endocrine physiology, she had found the experience quite daunting.
