Academic Supervisors : Pierre Wallemacq et Philippe Hantson

Tel. 02 764 17 34

E-mail : wallemacq@lbcm.ucl.ac.be

Contact person : Elisabeth Coppe

Tel. 02 764 50 34

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

The studies in Toxicology develop skills fostering the comprehension and prevention of toxicity from chemical substances used by man or arising from man's activities.

For all complementary information concerning these studies, please address the president of the programme management committee or the secretary's office of the school (c.f. contact numbers below).

The degree programmes (second university study cycle or "licence") are accessible to the following students :

• holders of the "candidat" diploma in Biomedical Sciences, Medecine, Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dental Sciences, Agronomic Sciences and Sciences (Biological, Chemical and Veterinary), from a Belgian or a Luxembourg university;
• holders of a university diploma juged to be equivalent in domains other than those mentioned above subject to analysis of the application ;
• holders of a non-university higher diploma ("gradué") in chemistry, clinical chemistry, medical biology or dietetics subject to passing an admission exam and adding a possible complement of studies for 150 hours maximum ;
• those who have passed the first two years of the "candidature" in medecine, subject to the approval of the Committee of Biomedical Sciences and a complement of studies.

The admission procedures and inscription at the University are detailed in the "General Information" pamphlet of the study Programme.

Some general important points of note :

• Each candidate must choose a promoter for himself with the help of the programme management Committee
• The choice of cours es, both compulsory and optional will be established in common agreement with the promoter and submitted to the management committee for approval by 1st November, at the latest.
• With the approval of the Committee, courses given at UCL-Bruxelles and in Louvain-la-Neuve judged as being equivalent in terms of training may replace courses of this programme.
• With the agreement of the management committee, a student may choose one or another course during the first year and have the exam mark recognised in the form of a capitalisable unit during the course of the second year. For more information, students can contact the vice-president of the programme management committee.
• Depending on the first cycle completed, the student may benefit from dispensations for certain courses (equivalent to 60 hours maximum) or, on the contrary, have one or another complement imposed on him by the management committee.
• For students admitted in the 1st year on the basis of having passed the 2nd year "candidature" in Medecine, the complements of the following subjects are imposed : mathematics(SBIM1001), statistics (MED 2430 et ESP3420), biomedical instrumental analysis (SBIM 2100) and an apprenticeship in a laboratory (SBIM9212).

[partim 1st part :15 hours]

[partim]

[partim general part : 30h]

one of the 3 following courses, subject to enrolment at the secretary's office for Biomedical Sciences

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.

The students coming from non-university higher studies ("graduat"), who have passed the entrance exam may find a supplement of 150 hours imposed on them, depending on their previous studies in the first or second study cycle, in agreement with the programme manager.

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

This apprenticeship takes place during the programme of the 2nd "candidature" in Biomedical sciences, but may be validated later, at the end of the 1st year of the "licence" at the latest.

Voir TOX 22

120 hours minimum for the year, to be chosen with the agreement of the promoter and that of the programme management committee.

This thesis consists of a personal scientific piece of work in the domain of Toxicology, partly carried out in a laboratory of the Faculty of Medecine under the scientific responsibility of a permanent member of the academic or scientific personnel of UCL. The writing of the thesis involves at least 90 hours of seminars or work meetings and supervised practical work under the responsibility of the promoter. In the case where, further to the agreement of the management committee, the thesis were to be done in a different faculty, in a centre for non-university research or in industry, a member of the Faculty of Medecine would participate in the supervision thereof in the capacity of co-promoter.

The work for the thesis should start as from the first year of the "licence" programme (TOX21). The domain in which it is to be written will be communicated to the committee with the written agreement of the promoter, by 30 November of the first study year, at the latest.

[partim 2nd part : 15 hours]

(partim 22.5 hours)

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

- specialised study diploma in Sciences and Management of the Environment (ENVI3DS).