Academic Supervisor : Elisabeth Darras

Contact person : Claudine Wangneur

Medico-social and Hospital Unit

ESP - Clos Chapelle aux Champs, 30 bte 30.37, 1er étage, local A 145, 1200 Bruxelles

Tel. 027643439 - Fax : 027643435 - wangneur@hosp.ucl.ac.be

The programme addresses Health or Management professionals who wish to acquire and /or perfect the necessary university skills for the conception, planning, coordination, management and/or evaluation of interventions in hospital or institutional care management.

Upon completion of this programme, the graduate will have acquired university skills integrating the practices and capacities of questioning, founded on interdisciplinarity, scientific rigour and research skills.

1. preparatory training year for the "licence," accessible to

• holders of a Belgian diploma ("gradué"), in nursing, midwifery, social assistant, assistant psychologist or a foreign diploma recognised as being equivalent.
• holders of a Belgian university first study cycle diploma "candidature" in Kinesitherapy, delivered by an Institute of Further Education (long cycle) or a foreign diploma recognised as being equivalent.
• holders of a Belgian further education diploma in ergotherapy, speech therapy, dietetics, chemistry, bandage manufacturing-orthesiology-prothesiology, podology-podotherapy, director's secretary - medical option or a foreign diploma recognised as being equivalent.
• holders of a Belgian diploma as a medical laboratory technician, secondary school teacher (AESI) in sciences: biology, chemistry and physics.
• or a foreign diploma recognised as being equivalent.

2. "Licence" in two years

Subject to the jury's decision ,

• holders of an academic qualification sanctioning the basic 1st study cycle
• holders of a certificate attesting to the successful completion of the 2nd year of 1st cycle studies in Medecine
• holders of a Belgian university degree ("licencié") in Kinesitherapy and Rehabilitation delivered by an Institute of Further Education (long cycle) or a diploma ("gradué") in nursing, subject to passing an admission exam and possible complementary studies.
• holders of a foreign diploma or certificate recognised as being equivalent to one of the Belgian certificates entitling access to the programme.
• any person proving to have the relevant professional and personal skills and who, further to the evaluation procedure, is judged to have sufficient capacities and knowledge to successfully follow these studies, subject to acceptance of the application for admission.

The University admission and enrolment procedures are detailed in the "General Information" section of the web page:
http://www.ucl.ac.be/etudes/programme.html
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Recognised as a programme of ongoing training, this "licence" programme entitles the student to paid education-leave. The programme is delivered in the form of an adapted timetable.

These "licence" studies are spread over two years and include theoretical presentations completed by practical work and work experience. The choice of the options must be approved by the programme director.

[partim : 60 hours]

The student is required to follow 105 hours of courses chosen from the list below. Within these 105 hours, a maximum of 30 hours may be chosen from outside the programme. The 105 hours will be spread over the two years. The student is allowed to enrol for an option which follows the specific courses from the other option. The choice of the options must be approved by the programme director.

This course on Geriatrics is optional.

100 hours (1/2 day per week over the full year) given in the form of seminars on research methods to prepare for the thesis.

See first year of studies

20 hours to be chosen from the programme of perfection cycles in Hospital Sciences which take place during the two study years.

Under the direction of one of the lecturers, the writing and defence of a thesis on a subject approved by the programme director and relating to the option chosen. The guidance of the student is assumed by his promoter and completed in the form of seminars to accompany the elaboration of the thesis. The thesis is defended before a jury.