University certificate : training in intensive care

Information

Mr Pierre DAMAS
Intensive care
B35 - CHU - 4000 Liège
Tel: 04/366.74.95
email: pdamas@chuliege.be

Legal framework

A.M. of 5.10.1995 (MB : 24.10.1995) : Ministerial decree setting out the special criteria for approving specialist doctors holding a specific professional qualification in intensive care as well as internship supervisors and internship departments in intensive care.

Presentation

This certificate, which aims to train specialist doctors to taken on any kind of failure which a patient may present, in an acute or chronic context, and from a diagnostic and curative or supporting point of view. This implies, in addition to the theory classes, that learning take place in a multidisciplinary centre dealing with the use of all kinds of life-support systems which medicine has to offer.

Special conditions of access / students concerned

This course targets specialist doctors or doctors currently specialising in anaesthesia and resuscitation, internal medicine, cardiology, gastro-enterology, pneumology, rheumatology, surgery, neurosurgery, urology, orthopaedic surgery, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery, paediatrics, neurology or emergency doctors (EMS) qualified to practice in Belgium.
Interested applicants should contact the head of the course to examine their application (competitive selection).
Those holding a qualification from outside the European Union must contact the Admissions Service (partial Certificate in Specialist Training).

Duration

• Two years of study: The full time course includes theoretical training (30 credits per year) and clinical internships (30 credits per year). During these 24 months, at least 3 months of full-time in internship and at most 6 months must be carried out at the "Centre hospitalier universitaire" in Sart Tilman.
• The first of these two years of internship may be carried out in the advanced master in anaesthesia, resuscitation, internal medicine, cardiology, gastro-enterology, pneumology, rheumatology, surgery, neurosurgery, urology, orthopaedic surgery, reconstructive and cosmetic surgery, paediatrics, neurology or emergency medicine.
• Date of the start and end of the course: September to June

Collegiality

Coordinator : Pierre DAMAS

Jean-Luc CANIVET, Didier LEDOUX, Paul MASSION, Bernard LAMBERMONT (Internal medicine - intensive care), Patrizio LANCELLOTTI, Luc PIERARD (Cardiology), Vincent D'ORIO (Emergency).

Assessment

Candidate's knowledge is assessed through continuous assessment by the internship supervisor and by the interuniversity examination of intensive medicine. Moreover, candidates must conduct a piece of scientific work which gives rise to at least one presentation to a national or international conference on intensive care.

Registration

Where?: ULiège lifelong learning unit
Documents to be presented: Dean's authorisation for enrolment
Enrolment fees: certificate rate.