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Licence en sciences biomédicales (nutrition humaine) (Diploma of the Second Cycle (Licence) in Biomedical Sciences (Human Nutrition)) [NUT 2]
>> Programme management
>> Specific study objectives for the degree programme in Biomedical Sciences, orientation : Human Nutrition
>> Admission conditions
>> Admission procedure
>> General structure of the programme
>> Programme content
>> >>> > NUT21 - First year of studies
>> >>> > NUT22 - Second year of studies
>> Positioning of the degree within the University cursus

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Programme management

SBIM Ecole des sciences biomédicales

Academic Supervisors : Jean-Paul Buts and Jean-Paul Thissen

Tel. 02 764 54 74

E-mail : thissen@diab.ucl.ac.be

Contact person : Elisabeth Coppe

Tel. 02 764 50 34

E-Mail : coppe@smd.ucl.ac.be

Specific study objectives for the degree programme in Biomedical Sciences, orientation : Human Nutrition

The specific aim of this orientation is to provide the students with high level studies with a view to training managers in the subject of human nutrition in the agro-nutrition sector and in the domain of public health. The programme focuses on diseases arising from mal-nutrition, enteral and parenteral nutrition, physiopathology nutrition in children and the physiological and pharmacological control of food supplies.

For all complementary information concerning these studies, please address the vice-president of the programme management committee or the school secretary's office.

Admission conditions

These second cycle university studies are accessibles to students who :

  • hold the first university study cycle title ("candidature") in Biomedical Sciences, Medecine, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dental Sciences, or Agronomical Sciences and Biological, Chemical and Veterinary Sciences, from a Belgian or Luxembourg university
  • hold a university diploma judged as being equivalent in other domains than those listed above, subject to admission approval ;
  • hold another diploma ("gradué") in Chemistry, Clinical, Medical Biology or Dietetics, subject to passing an admission exam and adding, if necessary, complementary sessions totalling 150 hours maximum ;
  • have succeeded in their first two university years ("candidature") in Medecine, subject to the agreement of the Committee of Biomedical Sciences and the adding of some complementary studies to their programme.

Admission procedure

The conditions and regular admission procedures are detailed on the web page "Access to Studies":


http://www.ucl.ac.be/etudes/libres/acces.html

General structure of the programme

This programme, which covers two and a half years of full-time studies, includes compulsory courses and options, participation in seminars and the writing of a thesis.

General important remarks :

  • Each candidate must choose a promoter with the help of the programme Management Committee.
  • The choices of the compulsory courses and the options are to be established in common accord with the promoter and submitted to the Management Committee for approval by 1st November, at the latest.
  • Subject to the approval of the Committee, courses given at the UCL-Bruxelles and Louvain-la-Neuve, estimated as being equivalent in termes of training content, may replace courses of the programme.
  • Subject to the approval of the Committee, a student may choose one or another course during the first year of the programme and have the mark of this exam recognised in the form of a capitalisable unit for the second year.
  • Depending on the 1st cycle followed, a student may be able to benefit from dispensations for certain courses (equivalent to maximum 60 hours) or, on the contrary, have one or another course complement imposed on him.
  • For the students accepted for the first year of the second cycle ("licence") on the basis of passing the 2nd year of the "candidature" in Medecine, complements in the following subjects are imposed : mathematics (SBIM1001), statistics (MED 2430 et ESP3420), instrumental biomedical analysis (SBIM 2100) and an apprenticeship in a laboratory (SBIM9212).

Programme content

NUT21 First year of studies

Molecular approach

BCHM1121

Biochimie humaine normale et pathologique[60h+16h] (8 credits) (in French)

Louis Hue, Frédéric Lemaigre

INTR2440

Exercices in Nutrition[30h] (3 credits) (in French)

Véronique BEAULOYE, Jean-Paul Buts (coord.), Nathalie Delzenne, Pierre Deprez, Etienne Sokal, Jean-Paul Thissen

INTR2400

Physiopathology of Nutrition in Infants[15h] (2 credits) (in French)

Jean-Paul Buts

FARM2182

Molecular genetics of the procaryotes and concepts of genetic engineering[30h+15h] (4 credits) (in French)

Etienne De Plaen, Jean-Noël Octave (coord.)

Functional approach

DENT1260

Physiologie humaine[45h+15h] (6 credits) (in French)

Sonia Brichard, Nicole Morel

FARM2290

General pathophysiology[30h] (3 credits) (in French)

Olivier Feron, Michel Lambert (coord.)

INTR2212

Endocrine and nutrition-related diseases[30h] (3 credits) (in French)

Dominique Maiter, Jean-Paul Thissen

INTR2220

Medical Nutrition Therapy[15h+15h] (2 credits) (in French)

Jean-Paul Thissen

INTR2390

Artificial nutrition[15h] (2 credits) (in French)

DOMINIQUE HERMANS, Didier Moulin, Marc Reynaert, Jean-Paul Thissen (coord.)

INTR2430

Human nutrition[15h] (2 credits) (in French)

Jean-Paul Thissen

ESP3540

Nutrition[30h] (3 credits) (in French)

Sonia Brichard, Jean-Paul Thissen

Morphological approach

ISTO1301

Normal histology of systems (part 2)[15h+25h] (4 credits) (in French)

Idesbald Colin (supplée Jean-François Denef), Jean-François Denef, Marie-Christine Many (coord.), Jean-Marie Scheiff

(partim)

Xenobiotic approach

INTR2450

Experimental toxicology related to food and nutrition[22.5h+15h] (3 credits) (in French)

Pedro Buc Calderon, Nathalie Delzenne

INTR2410

Physiological and pharmacological control of energy homeostasis[15h] (2 credits) (in French)

Sonia Brichard

Quantitative approach

ESP3142

Epidemiology[22.5h+7.5h] (3 credits) (in French)

Fabienne Nackers, Annie Robert (coord.)

"Public health or Human Sciences " approach

ESP3550

Hygiène alimentaire[15h] (2 credits) (in French)

Jean-Marie Ketelslegers

ESP3630

Santé et environnement: risques biologiques[15h] (2 credits) (in French)

Michel Delmée

INTR2380

Législation en matière de denrées alimentaires[15h] (2 credits) (in French)

Jean-Marie Ketelslegers

one of the 3 following courses subjects to enrolment at the Biomedical Sciences secretary's office

MD2201

Christian ethics[15h] (2 credits) (in French)

Philippe Goffinet

MD2202

Faith and reason[15h] (2 credits) (in French)

N.

MD2203

Questions of Religious Sciences : The Bible and his Message[15h] (2 credits) (in French)

Jean-Marie Van Cangh

and the following language course

ANGL2454

Interactive English[30h] (3 credits)

Marc Piwnik, Albert Verhaegen

Options

30 hours minimum for the year, to be chosen with the agreement of the promoter and the Programme Management Committee .

Students with a non-university further education diploma, who pass the entrance exam, may have to add a supplement of 150 hours of lectures from the first or second cycle of studies to their programme, depending on their prior studies and in agreement with the programme manager.

Apprenticeship

SBIM9212

Stage en laboratoire[30h] (3 credits) (in French)

N.

Information concerning this apprenticeship is available at the secretary's office.

This work experience forms part of the 2nd year of the first cycle of studies ("candidature") in Biomedical Sciences, but can be validated at the end of the 1st year of the "licence" at the latest.

Thesis

C.f. "Nut 22".

NUT22 Second year of studies

Compulsory courses

BCMM2130

Biochemistry of Metabolic Diseases[30h] (2 credits) (in French)

Marie-Cécile Nassogne, Marie-Françoise Vincent

NUT2020

Experimental Basis of Nutrition[30h] (3 credits) (in French)

Véronique BEAULOYE, Jean-Paul Buts (coord.), Nathalie Delzenne, Pierre Deprez, Etienne Sokal

Options

60 hours minimum for the year, to be chosen in agreement with the promoter and the Programme Management Committee.

Thesis

The thesis consists of a personal scientific work, in the domain of nutrition or dietetics, carried out - at least in part - in a laboratory of the Faculty of Medecine under the scientific responsibility of a permanent member of the scientific or academic staff of UCL. The completion of a thesis involves at least 90 hours of seminars or work meetings and supervised practical tasks under the responsibility of the promoter. In the case where, with the agreement of the management committee, the thesis is to be carried out in another faculty, in a non-university research centre, or in a firm or factory, a member of the Faculty of Medecine will participate in the supervision of the thesis in the capacity of co-promoter.

The thesis work must begin right from the first year of the "licence" (NUT21). The domain in which it is to be written will be communicated to the Commitee, with the written agreement of the promoter by the 30 November, at the latest, in the first year of "licence".

Options recommended for the NUT orientation

Molecular approach

BRAL2102

Nutritional biochemistry and human food needs[45h+0h] (3.5 credits) (in French)

Yvan Larondelle

BCHM1210

Biochimie générale[67.5h+30h] (8 credits) (in French)

Frederik Opperdoes, Emile Van Schaftingen

BCHM2120

Supplementary Biochemistry[30h] (2 credits) (in French)

Luc Bertrand, Mark Rider

BCMM2140

Molecular cell biology of hormonal regulation[30h] (3 credits) (in French)

Stefan Constantinescu, Frédéric Lemaigre

BRAL2103

Food chemistry[52.5h+37.5h] (7.5 credits) (in French)

Sonia Collin

DENT1280

Biochimie spéciale[25h] (3 credits) (in French)

Françoise Bontemps, Gaëtane Leloup (coord.)

DENT2450

General pathophysiology of diseases[45h] (4 credits) (in French)

Daniel Manicourt

FARM2190

Immunology, immunogenetics and immunopathology[30h] (3 credits) (in French)

Jean-Christophe Renauld

GEMO2110

Molecular and medical genetics[30h] (2 credits) (in French)

Christine Dumoulin

MEDI2200

Gynecology-Obstetrics (including anatomopathology, neonatology and medical genetics)[124.5h] (10 credits) (in French)

Pierre Bernard, Jacques Donnez (coord.), Christine Dumoulin, Corinne Hubinont, Etienne Marbaix, Mireille SMETS, Jean-Luc SQUIFFLET, Gaston Verellen

(partim medical genetics, 10 hours)

SBIM2520

Workshop of molecular genetics[40h] (3 credits) (in French)

Patrick Jacquemin, Patrick Jacquemin

Functional approach

DENT2440

ELEMENTS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE[45h] (4 credits) (in French)

Benoît Boland (coord.), Patrick Chenu, Dominique Vanpee

MEDI2205

Secteur endocrinologie (y compris la radiologie, l'anatomie pathologique et la pharmacologie)[76h] (6 credits) (in French)

Martin Buysschaert (coord.), Chantal Daumerie, Etienne DELGRANGE, Julian Donckier, Michel Hermans, Yves Horsmans, Marc Maes, Dominique Maiter, Jacques Rahier, Jean-Paul Thissen, Bernard Van Beers

[partim 25 hours, endocrinology and nutrition]

INTR2440

Exercices in Nutrition[30h] (3 credits) (in French)

Véronique BEAULOYE, Jean-Paul Buts (coord.), Nathalie Delzenne, Pierre Deprez, Etienne Sokal, Jean-Paul Thissen

Xenobiotic approach

BRTE2201

Human and animal toxicology[22.5h] (2 credits) (in French)

Alfred Bernard

FARM2230

Complement of instrumental analysis[30h+15h] (in French)

Bernard Tilquin

FARM2145

Metabolism of the xénobiotiques ones[15h+22.5h] (3 credits) (in French)

Pedro Buc Calderon (coord.), Yves Horsmans, Roger-K. Verbeeck

FARM2272

Toxicology[30h] (3 credits) (in French)

Pedro Buc Calderon

FARM2280

Organotoxicity and cander : molecular, cellular and functional apsects[30h+15h] (in French)

Pedro Buc Calderon, Olivier Feron, Philippe Hantson

FARM2201

Pharmaceutical approach in nutrition[30h+15h] (3.5 credits) (in French)

Nathalie Delzenne

PHAR2130

Medical Toxicology[22.5h] (3 credits) (in French)

Philippe Hantson

Quantitative approach

INFM2112

Medical Informatics[15h+15h] (2 credits) (in French)

Etienne De Clercq, Francis Roger France

SBIM2243

Digital processing of medical images[30h+15h] (4 credits) (in French)

Benoît Macq, Claude Veraart

Public Health and Human Sciences approach

FILO1220

Epistemology 2: Introduction to philosophy of science[45h] (5 credits) (in French)

Tom Dedeurwaerdere, Tom Dedeurwaerdere (supplée N.), Bernard Feltz

ESP3210

Introduction à l'organisation hospitalière[22.5h]EN Cours non dispensé cette année académique (in French)

N.

RPR2001

Notions de base de radioprotection[10h+5h] (in French)

Vincent Grégoire (coord.), Patrick Smeesters

ESP3620

Santé et environnement: risques chimiques[15h+7.5h] (2 credits) (in French)

Perrine Hoet

MDTR3211

Toxicologie industrielle[15h] (2 credits) (in French)

Dominique Lison

MED2180

Hygiene in tropical countries[15h] (2 credits) (in French)

Myriam Malengreau

ESP3060

Nutrition et hygiène alimentaire des pays en voie de développement[30h] (in French)

Myriam Malengreau

SEHY3102

Contrôle de l'ambiance chimique de travail[15h] (in French)

Vincent Haufroid, Dominique Lison (coord.), Christian Lucion

Methodology courses

SBIM3100

Elementary quantitative analysis[22.5h] (in French)

Bernard Tilquin

SBIM2111

Methodolgy of cell and molecular biology[22.5h] (3 credits) (in French)

Pierre Courtoy (coord.), Emile Van Schaftingen

BCMM3320

Pathological Histo- and Cytochemistry[30h] (in French)

Jean-François Denef, Yves Guiot (coord.), Jacques Rahier

[partim 22,5h]

Positioning of the degree within the University cursus

In addition to the programmes of the 3rd cycle (masters), and the PhD, organised by the School of Biomedical Sciences, the graduate students in Biomedical Sciences also have access to programmes organised in other schools or institutes including the following :

- specialised study diploma in Environmental Sciences and Management (ENVI3DS).



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