Academic Supervisor : Gaston Verellen

Contact : Secretary's Office for Pediatrics. Tel. 027641300

President : G. Verellen

Membres : BARREA Catherine, BEAULOYE Véronique, BODART Eddy, BONNIER Christine, BRICHARD Bénédicte, BUTS Jean-Paul, CAILTEUX Madeleine, CHRISTIAENS F. , DE BILDERLING Georges, DEBAUCHE Christian, FRANCOIS Geneviève, GODDING Véronique, HERMANS Dominique, LEBECQUE Patrick, MAES Marc, NASSOGNE Marie-Cécile, OVAERT Caroline, SLUYSMANS Thierry, SOKAL Etienne, TUERLINCKX David, VERMYLEN Christiane. One representative from the "MACCS".

The Selection Committee for candidate assistant clinician specialist doctors (MACCS, in French) is composed of the members of the teaching Committee, to which are added two guest members and two co-opted members.

This complementary master's programme aims to prepare doctors to become officially recognised holders of the specific professional title of Specialist Doctor in Pediatrics (Ministerial Decree of 15.09.1979, published on 26.09.1979, modified by the Ministerial Decree of 03.05.1999, published on 08.07.1999).

• 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 Pediatrics, 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 Pediatrics (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 comprises full time apprenticeships in recognised services and teaching centres. It lasts for at least five years, full-time, including three years of foundation studies and two years of higher training. The apprenticeship project established by the university promoter 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 :

Three years of training, consisting of :

• Theoretical courses : In-depth questions on internal pediatric medecine, In-depth questions on emergency medecine and intensive pediatric care, Complements of social pediatrics and prevention in schools, Complements of psychopathology in children
• Seminars : Seminar on pediatrics, Seminar on intensive care and neonatology
• A period of supervised hospital training : Polyclinic pediatrics, polyclinic neonatology, Polyclinic intensive care

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

Two years of training, consisting of :

• Theoretical courses : In-depth questions on nutrition and growth, complements of pediatric cardiology and pneumology, complements of pedriatic neurology and metabolic diseases, compéements of haematology, oncology and immunology.
• Seminars: Seminar on pediatric cardiology, Seminar on pediatric hematology and oncology.
• A period of supervised hospital training: Pediatric cardiology and polyclinic Pneumology, polyclinic pediatrics, polyclinic endocrinology, pediatric hematology and polyclinic oncology, polyclinic pediatric gastro-enterology.

An evaluation of the knowledge acquired is carried out at the end of each part of the programme. Besides this, the candidate will write a thesis and have an article published in a specialist review.

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.

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

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 a specialised training programme leading to this validation.