Venue and schedule
The program will be held in Brussels from November 2019 to May 2020.
Courses are held over 4 sessions of 3 days (Thursday, Friday and Saturday).
|
DATE |
TOPICS |
TIME |
|---|---|---|
|
Day 1 |
Registration and welcome |
1 h |
|
Introduction to humanitarian medicine |
1 h | |
|
Introduction to humanitarian surgery |
1 h | |
|
War surgery (part 1) |
5 h | |
|
Day 2 |
War surgery (part 2) |
4 h |
|
Resuscitation and anaesthesia |
4 h | |
|
Day 3 |
Head, neck, and spine surgery |
4 h |
|
Plastic surgery |
4 h | |
|
Day 4 |
Thoracic surgery |
4 h |
|
Vascular surgery |
4 h | |
|
Day 5 |
Abdominal surgery |
8 h |
|
Day 6 |
Urologic surgery |
4 h |
|
Tabletop exercise in war surgery |
3 h | |
|
Day 7 |
Obstetrics |
8 h |
|
Day 8 |
Pediatric surgery |
8 h |
|
Day 9 |
Orthopaedic trauma |
8 h |
|
Day 10 |
Logistics, pharmaceutics and specific questions |
6 h |
|
Practical exercise of triage on mass casualty |
2 h | |
|
Day 11 |
Hands-on lab |
8 h |
|
Day 12 |
Evaluation |
5 h |
Working language
English
Enrolment procedure
Registration for the certificate
Candidates are invited to complete the admission form and to send the letter of motivation to the address : humanitarian-surgery@uclouvain.be.
Registrations are open until 31 Augustus 2019.
The candidates shall be selected on the basis of their admission documentation and their motivation letter. The Academic Professors shall decide on all the applications and the participants shall be informed by 15 September 2019. The number of participants is limited to 30 to guarantee the program’s quality. The group of participants may comprise a maximum of 15 assistants.
Some places are also reserved for MSF personnel. The organizers reserve the right to cancel or postpone the certificate, should the number of participants be insufficient.
Request for observer status
Individuals who do not fulfil the admission conditions and would like to attend only some modules of the course may apply for observer status by sending an email at humanitarian-surgery@uclouvain.be. These applications shall be examined in the order in which they are received. These places are limited to 10 by the academic organisers. In order to guarantee the educational quality of certain courses, it could well be that this number is further restricted for certain modules.
Contact
Want to find out more ?
email : humanitarian-surgery@uclouvain.be