Medicine

Regulatory aspects (particularly access to courses) are explained on the Faculty website.

Medical studies at the University of Liège are organised according to various levels of acquisition of knowledge and skills. The approach to patient care takes place throughout the course through various compulsory, dynamic activities (practical work, seminars, placements).

From the first term of Block 2 to the end of the first term of Block 3 of the Bachelors, a module entitled Normal humans and the general principles of pathology includes multidisciplinary approaches to the various systems. These integrated and inseparable courses contain the following subjects: anatomy, systemic and topographical anatomy, pathological anatomy, biochemistry, pathological biochemistry, embryology, genetics, histology, microbiology, physiology, pathological physiology, semiology.

They are complemented with compulsory attendance, practical work and problem-based learning seminars.

The next step of the training course deals with diagnosis, pathologies and treatments. It takes place from the second term of Block 3 of the Bachelor, in the form of inseparable integrated courses of pathology, including the following subjects: pathological anatomy, clinical biology, cardiology, surgery, geriatrics, medicine, emergency medicine, nuclear medicine, physical medicine and rehabilitation, medical oncology, otorhinolaryngology, paediatrics, pneumology, radiodiagnosis, radiotherapy.

They are complemented with compulsory activities, practical work, clinical teaching, seminars in clinical reasoning and diagnosis (ARC and ARCD), as well as internships.

Work placements:
During Block 2, a compulsory medical visit is connected to all work placements in the Medicine courses.

Introductory classes to the hospital observation placement (10 hours) are organised during the second term of the second year (Block 2) in order to be admitted to the observation placement (80 hours) which will take place during the summer and which is part of the course programme for the third year (Block 3). These placements are the first contact students will have with the hospital environment.

In addition, medical observation placements, starting in the second term in Block 3, will provide a practical insight into the work of the various clinical services.

Finally, an observational placement in general medicine (80 hours), organised during the summer of the third year, illustrates the pathways of patients whose symptoms begin at home and which require primary health care treatment. This is covered again in the classes in Block 1 of the Masters (4th year).