Cooperation between HEIs and the business and industrial sector in the field of student placements is one of the most popular activities where business partners can strengthen links with HEIs. Looking from the point of view of learning outcomes, various schemes for this cooperation are in place to secure high quality placements. Moreover, year by year enterprises put greater importance on international practical experience of graduates when recruiting new employees. On the other hand, checking student placements in host enterprises is not an easy task in the various regions of the enlarged Europe. A clear common system has not yet been defined and accepted in Europe. In addition, standards and practices differ considerably from one member state to another. The general ideas that lead to the Q-PlaNet project was to find a solution for the issue of student placements at various business partners by connecting regional quality reference centres with host institutions and enterprises, sending organisations and students.

Question 1 Is growth hormone deficiency in childhood commonly associated with panhypopituitarism?

Question 2 I would like to ask why, when treating hypopituitarism, an adrenal crisis occurs if thyroid replacement is given before steroid replacement therapy? And what is the underlying mechanism? Thank you!

Question 3 Why, in Sheehan's syndrome, is there an anterior pituitary involvement more than a posterior one?

Question 4 Is the cyclic presence of Montgomery tubercles, where they reduce and later increase, in a nulliparous woman's breast normal? And, if so, what is the cause?

Question 5 Does methyltestosterone, if given in a daily dose of 2.5 mg per day, cause liver cell injury or hypothalamic gonadal suppression? Can this drug be prescribed for other cases with hypothalamic hypogonadism, usually being given by intramuscular injection or implant?

Question 6 Does IM testosterone increase levels of serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)?

Question 7 For some time now I have been confused regarding tests for acromegaly 1. Which is best - screening or diagnosing test in these patients? 2. Your book says the 'glucose tolerance test [GTT] is diagnostic'. Does this mean GTT with growth hormone (GH) evaluation or that a patient who is clinically an acromegalic with a positive GTT (diabetic) can be labelled as acromegalic? Incidentally, a lot of people around me are similarly confused and others have been following the latter saying that 'Kumar and Clark say so'. Please clarify.

Question 8 Does acromegaly cause depression?

Question 9 1. Breathlessness can be a feature of acromegaly. What are the characteristics of this breathlessness? 2. If a patient presents with headaches due to acromegaly, what are the likely characteristics of these headaches?

Question 10 Why does hypothyroidism cause a transudative pleural effusion?