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| PATH0147-4 | Module : metabolism - diabetes - Endocrinial system - metabolic and endocrinal pathologies
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| Duration : | 37h Th |
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| Holder(s) : | Albert Beckers, Jean‑Pierre Bourguignon, Jean‑François Brichant, Philippe Coucke, Philippe Delvenne, Roland Hustinx, Didier Martin, Paul Meunier, Michel Meurisse, André Scheen |
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| Coordinator : | André Scheen |
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| Language : | French language |
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| Course contents : | The courses devoted to the student of the fourth year of the Medical School (1er doctorat) are given during the semester 8 and include different topics: immunology, infectious diseases, paediatrics, oncology, haematology, endocrinology (medical and surgical aspects), rhumatology, nephrology, pharmacology, problems of general medical practice, anatomopathology, radiology, dermatology.
One example, the course of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Disorders:
This course includes 7 lessons of 90 minutes on :
1) obesity and metabolic syndrome;
2) type 2 diabetes mellitus and secondary diabetes;
3) type 1 diabetes;
4) acute metabolic complications including hypoglycaemia;
5) chronic complications and follow-up of a diabetic patient;
6) denutrition including alcohol-associated metabolic disorders; and
7) dyslipidaemia and cardiovascular risk assessment. |
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| Course objective : | To be able to diagnose the pathological problems teached at the semester 8 and to know their characteristics, especially their causes, major clinical signs, principal biological and specific exams necessary to confirm their real existence, the other possible illnesses with the same signs and the main principles of treatment. |
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| Prerequisites : | The best learning of the different diseases teached during this 8th semester needs the knowledge of the normal human condition, including the regulation of body weight (energy balance), the homeostasis of glycaemia (especially the role of insulin and the counteregulatory hormones), the exogenous and endogenous routes of lipoproteins, .... |
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| Workshops : | Several workshops will be organized especially for the anatomo-pathology and the medical imagery teachings. |
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| Organization : | All the courses will be given in the WELSCH auditorium at the CHU Sart Tilman. The timetable of these courses but also of the workshops and the clinical argument learning sessions will be put up near the Decanat at the CHU Sart Tilman. |
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| Written notes : | Each teacher has his personal way of teaching, helped by a personal written or a reference book and/or a CDrom or a web site, well known by the students'association. |
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| Assessment : | Multidisciplinary oral and written exams will be hold in June. Obligatory presence in stages, practical courses and ARC. |
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| Contacts : | Contact person: Professor M Malaise, Chief of the Internal Medicine Department, CHU Liège (3243667242) or Professor A. Scheen, Chief of the Division of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Disorders and of General Internal Medicine, CHU Sart Tilman (tel 3243667238) |
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| Remarks : | Teaching is done in French. |
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