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

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.

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.

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

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

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).

(partim)

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

and the following language course

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.

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.

C.f. "Nut 22".

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

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".

(partim medical genetics, 10 hours)

[partim 25 hours, endocrinology and nutrition]

[partim 22,5h]

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).