Academic Supervisor : Martin Buysschaert

Contact : Secretary's office for Internal medecine

Tel. 027641054

buysschaert@diab.ucl.ac.be

Academic Supervisor : Luc Delaunois

Contact : Service of Pneumology

Tel. 081423351

luc.delaunois@pneu.ucl.ac.be

President : Martin Buysschaert

Members : L. Delaunois, A. Ferrant, A. Geubel, Ph. Hainaut, F. Houssiau, Y. Pirson, M. Symann, J.-L. Vanoverschelde.

President : L. Delaunois

Members : COLLARD Philippe, LIISTRO Giuseppe, MARCHAND Eric, RODENSTEIN Daniel, SIBILLE Yves, VANDENPLAS Olivier. 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 Pneumology (Ministerial Decree of 09.03.1979, published on 15.03.1979, modified by the Ministerial Decree of 22.04.2002, published on 25.07.2002).

• 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 Pneumonology, 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 Pneumonology (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 three years of foundation studies in internal medecine and a higher training in Pneumology of at least three years. 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, full time, consisting of :

• Theoretical courses
• Seminars
• A period of supervised hospital training

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

Three years, full-time, consisting of :

• Theoretical courses : These courses are given in the context of the inter-university "MC", grouping 7 faculties of medecine.
• Seminars
• A period of supervised hospital training

Semestrial clinical evaluations : these evaluations are established (in writing) by the practical training course supervisor of each candidate and aim to assess different items. The evaluations of all the candidates are reviewed during the two semestrial meetings of the ensemble of the practical training supervisors.

At the end of theses three years of training, each candidate will be evaluated during the course of an interview aimed at testing his general knowledge acquired in Internal Medecine.

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.

At the end of these three years of training, each candidate will be evaluated during the course of an interview aimed at testing the in-depth knowledge acquired in Pneumology.

The writing of a thesis (20-25 pages) on a subjet of Pneumoloy. The instruction leaflet for the thesis is available at the secretary's office of the service. Publication of an article.

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

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.