• During the training course, the candidate must have carried out at least 20 autopsies and 120 penal expertises per year, as well as having assumed increasing responsibility in the subject matter and in the other activities.
• At least once during the training programme, the candidate must have presented a paper during a recognised scientific meeting and published an article on a scientific subject relating to Legal Medecine in a review, of which he is the main author.
• The candidate must have completed a report on his work experience in which he keeps a record of all activities, distinguishing the acts in which he has participated and those accomplished personally, and in which he indicates all of the seminars, courses and other didactic or scientific activities in which he has taken part.
Theoretical courses
Parallel to the practical training, the candidate specialist will follow a university programme organised as follows :
Pathological Anatomy
> ANPS3110 Compléments d'anatomie pathologique[40h] (in French) N.
> ANPS3120 Pathologie médico-légale en toxicologie[15h] (in French) N.
> BCMM3320 Histochimie et cytochimie pathologiques[30h] (in French) Jean-François Denef, Yves Guiot (coord.), Jacques Rahier
> ANAP3101 Démonstrations et protocoles d'anatomie pathologique (autopsies et pièces opératoires)[60h] (in French) Frédéric Bonbled, Jean-Pierre Cosyns,
Monique Delos, Christine Galant, Catherine Godfraind, Serge Gosseye, Etienne Marbaix, Jacques Rahier (coord.), Christine Sempoux, Birgit Weynand
> ANAP3111 Séminaire d'anatomie pathologique[30h] (in French) Frédéric Bonbled, Jean-Pierre Cosyns, Monique Delos, Christine Galant, Catherine Godfraind, Serge Gosseye, Etienne Marbaix, Jacques Rahier (coord.), Christine Sempoux, Birgit Weynand
Legal Medecine
Compulsory courses
> ECRI2101A Eléments de droit pénal et de procédure pénale (1ère partie)[30h] (in French) N.
> ECRI2101B Eléments de procédure penale[30h] (in French) N.
> ECRI2108 Introduction to Psychiatry and Forensic Psychiatry[45h] (in French) Antoine Masson, Philippe Meire
> ECRI2209 Criminal Psychopathology[30h] (in French) Jean Kinable
> ARKE2660 Paleo-Anthropology[22.5h] (in French) Marie-Claire Van Dyck
> MEX2050 Compléments de médecine légale, thanatologie et traumatologie médico-légales[15h] (in French) Frédéric Bonbled
> INTR3620 Physiopathologie des intoxications[30h] (in French) Philippe Hantson
> PHAR2130 Medical Toxicology[22.5h] (in French) Philippe Hantson
> GEMO2110 Génétique moléculaire médicale[30h] (in French) Christine Dumoulin
> BRPP2102 Entomologie appliquée à l'agriculture[45h+15h] (in French) Claude Bragard, Thierry Hance, Henri Maraite, Hans Van Dyck
Seminars and supervised exercises on :
• Special Criminal Jurisdiction matters
• Questions of Psychiatry
• General Traumatology and Sequela
• Legal-medico Odontology
Options
The student will choose from among the following options or from those selected from the course programme in agreement with the programme supervisor :
> DPCR2345 Issues of Criminal Procedure and International Criminal law[30h] (in French) Henri Bosly
> SEX2400 Psychopathology of family and sex life[30h] (in French) Patrice De Neuter
> ANPS2120 Anatomie pathologique spéciale et bucco-dentaire,[15h+21h] (in French) Christine Galant, Birgit Weynand (coord.)
> NEER2450 NEER 2450 - Interactive Communication in Medicine (Master's in Medical Science)[30h] (in French) Christel Vandegoor (coord.)
University certificate in expertise medecine
This training course can be followed 1 year full-time, or 2 years part -time. This programme addresses :
• doctors who practise or wish to practise evaluation or repair of corporal damage
• national health advisory doctors
• inspector doctors of the "INAMI"
• advisory doctors for insurance companies
• doctors desirous of advising their patients correctly and orientating them appropriately for medical, juridical and administrative and damage repair
• graduates in dental sciences desirous of developing an expertise activity
The content of this programme is as follows :
Notions of Law
> MEX2030 Droit social[30h] (in French) Xavier De Beys
> MEX2060 Droit des assurances[15h] (in French) Paul-Henry Delvaux
> MEX2340 Responsabilité civile et pénale[15h] (in French) Geneviève Schamps
Specific medico-legal aspects
> MEX2160 L'expertise médicale, y compris la déontologie de l'expertise et les modes de réparation des dommages à la personne[30h] (in French) Frédéric Bonbled
Economic aspects
> MEX2020 Aspects économiques de la réparation du dommage corporel[15h] (in French) N.
Evaluation of sequela
> MEX2420 Problèmes d'expertise en médecine interne[15h] (in French) Frédéric Bonbled (coord.), Christian Brohet, Jean-Pierre Devogelaer, Olivier DEWIT, André Geubel, Cédric Hermans, Michel Hermans, Daniel Manicourt, Olivier Vandenplas
> MEX2260 Problèmes d'expertises en orthopédie et en traumatologie[15h] (in French) Jean-Jacques Rombouts
> MEX2070 Evaluation radiologique dans les expertises médicales[22.5h] (in French) Guy Cosnard, Baudouin Maldague (coord.), Jean-Paul Trigaux
> MEX2080 Psychologie et psychopathologie du travail[12h] (in French) Jean-Paul Roussaux, Arlette Seghers, Arlette Seghers (supplée Jean-Paul Roussaux)
> IEP2840 Compléments d'orthopédie et de traumatologie[22.5h] (in French) Christian Delloye, Pascal Poilvache, Jean-Jacques Rombouts
Seminar
Multidisciplinary thematic questions and problems related to specialist medical expertise
Periods of work experience