Academic Supervisor : Paul Van Cangh

Contact person : B. Van Hove

Secretary's Office for the Urology Service

Tel. 02 764 14 11

E-mail : vanhove@chex.ucl.ac.be

President : P. Van Cangh.

Members : FEYAERTS Axel, LORGE Francis, OPSOMER Reinier-Jacques, TOMBAL Bertrand, WESE François-Xavier. One representative from the "MACCS".

The Selection Committee of candidate assistant specialist doctors (MACCS, in French) is composed of the members of the Teaching Committee, to which are added two guest members and two coopted members.

This complementary master's programme aims to prepare doctors to become officially recognised holders of the specific professional title of Specialist Doctor in Urology (Ministerial Decree of 18.07.1979, published on 07.08.1979).

• The applicant must hold the degree title of Doctor in Medecine or be a Doctor from a member country of the European Union authorising medical practice in Belgium.
• The applicant must be in possession of a document attesting that, at the end of the selection exams, he was retained as a specialist candidate in Urology, in a Belgian medical faculty.

The juridical context and practical procedures regarding these selection tests can be obtained from the secretary's office.

Degree holders from outside the European Union are only allowed to register on the programme in the context of procuring a university certificate for partially specialised training for the duration of two years (if they are in the process of doing a specialisation in their country of origin) or for an in-depth specialised training course for the duration of one year (if they are already recognised as specialists in their own country).

The Royal Decree of 30.05.2002, relating to the planning of the medical offer for the public, published on 14.06.2002, applies to those candidates wishing to obtain the title of Specialist Doctor in Urology (those candidates are thus counted among the general practitioner candidates or specialists in the context of the numerus clausus).

Applications for admission must be addressed to the academic supervisor.

The organisation of the entrance selection tests is arranged in accordance with the calendar and the general examination rules and regulations.

The training course includes full time apprenticeships in recognised services and teaching centres. It lasts for at least six years, full-time, including two years of foundation studies and four years of higher studies. The apprenticeship project established by the university promloter must be approved by the ministerial validation committee for the speciality. These periods of practical training include being on call.

Parallel to the practical training, the specialist candidate will follow a university training programme organised as follows :

Two years of training aimed at familiarising the candidate with the various domains of surgery.

Cf. programme of the first part of the specialised diploma studies in general surgery

The candidate will follow the courses in general surgery to which he will add an optional course in the domain of Urology, Nephrology, Andrology and Gynecology.

The theoretical sessions of the first two years form part of the specific university training programme (FUS, in French).

Four years of studies consisting of :

• Theoretical courses : Surgical procedures and techniques in Urology for adults and children. Endoscopic techniques in Urology. Functional problems in Urology and in masculine Sexuology.

• Seminars: Seminar on Urology
• A period of supervised hospital training : Clinical demonstrations of Urology
• Options

Further to the application of the Royal Decree of 16 March, 1999, at the end of the first two years of training, the candidate will receive an attestation proving that he has successfully accomplished a specific university training course.

Annual evaluation in the context of the inter-university courses on Urology. The final evaluation will be taken into consideration for the recognition of specialists by the Ministerial Validation Committee. It also involves an annual communication to a congress on Urology, a publication in an Urological journal and an end of course thesis.

Upon fulfilment of the above-described training requirements, the teaching committee will award the academic title in Urology.

This title does not replace official recognition by the ministerial validation committee. It attests the successful completion of an academic and scientific study programme in the context of specialised training leading to this validation.