Access Requirements

General access requirements

Translated from  https://www.gallilex.cfwb.be/fr/leg_res_01.php?ncda=39681&referant=l02

Art. 112. § 1. In accordance with the general requirements established by the academic authorities, students who have:

1. a master’s degree;

2. an academic degree similar to the one mentioned in the preceding paragraph awarded by a higher education institution in the Flemish Community or the German-speaking Community, or by the Royal Military Academy, by virtue of a decision of the academic authorities and in accordance with any additional requirements they may establish;

3. a foreign academic degree recognised as equivalent to those mentioned in paragraphs 1 and 2 pursuant to this decree, a European directive, an international convention or other legislation, in accordance with the same requirements.

The additional admission requirements referred to in paragraph 2 are intended to ensure that the student has acquired the knowledge and skills required for the studies in question. When the additional admission requirements consist of one or more additional course units, these may not represent more than 60 additional credits for the student, taking into account all the credits that he or she may otherwise use for admission. These course units are part of the student’s study programme.

§ 2. In accordance with the general requirements established by the academic authorities, a student who holds a title, diploma, degree or certificate of higher education, in the French Community or outside it, which does not grant him or her eligibility for admission to a specialised master’s course by virtue of the preceding paragraph, may nevertheless be admitted by the jury of the course in question, in accordance with the additional requirements that it establishes, if the totality of the higher education that he or she has completed or the expertise that he or she has acquired is valued by the jury to be at least 240 credits.

§ 3. By way of derogation from these general requirements, the academic authorities may also admit to a specialised master’s course holders of a title, diploma, degree or certificate awarded outside the French Community which, in that system of origin, grants direct eligibility for postgraduate studies, even if the studies sanctioned by these credentials are not organised into distinct degree courses or within a time period of at least five years.

Specific access requirements

• Hold a doctorate in medicine, a master's degree in medicine or a doctor from a member country of the European Union and enabling medical practice in Belgium.
• Be the bearer of a document attesting that the person concerned was, at the end of the selection test, selected as a candidate specialist in clinical genetics, in a Belgian medical faculty.
Registration and organization of the selection tests is done according to the calendar and the general competition rules. The legal context and practical details of this selection test can be obtained from the secretariat.

The training is limited to four years in clinical genetics if the specialist candidate has already obtained a level 2 qualification within the framework of which he followed, during his training, general clinical training of at least two years in a service of approved internship.

As with any other medical specialty, the holder of a diploma outside the European Union cannot register for this program, except within the framework of a university certificate of partial specialized training lasting two years ( if they are in the process of specializing in their country of origin) or in-depth specialized training lasting one year (if they are already recognized as specialists in their country).
The A.R. of June 12, 2008 relating to the planning of the medical offer published on June 18, 2008 is applicable for candidates who wish to obtain the title of specialist in clinical genetics.

Special conditions

Any situation which does not fall under the conditions set out above will be examined by the admission jury.

Non-French-speaking student applicants (EU and non-EU) must provide proof, in their application for admission, of sufficient command of the French language (level B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference, pages 24 to 29).