10 ECTS credits
300 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 6021803FNR for all students in the 1st and 2nd semester at a (F) Master - specialised level.

Semester
1st and 2nd semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Pass/Non pass
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
Dutch
Partnership Agreement
Under interuniversity agreement for degree program
Faculty
Faculteit Geneeskunde en Farmacie
Department
Surgical clinical sciences
Educational team
Michaël Bruneau (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
30 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
270 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

The ASO is given the chance to practice a broad array of domains within the specialism during the education. During these internships, the ASO acquires specific knowledge and skills and applies these in the practice.  

Preferential internships during the education are (main fields in medicine):  

  • Spinal neurosurgery 

  • Neuro-oncology 

  • Vascular neurosurgery 

  • Neurotraumatology 

  • Pediatric neurosurgery 

  • Pituitary surgery 

  • Functional neurosurgery 

  • Neuromonitoring 

  • Emergency neurosurgery 

  • Neuronavigation 

Overview of the skills of specific interventions level expert:  

  • General medicinal knowledge and skills 

  • Knowledge 

  • Targeted surgical anamnesis and clinical investigation 

  • Targeted application and interpretation of lab, imaging and anatomopathology in diagnostics and treatment 

  • Handle differential diagnostics problems, indication statement and interpretation 

  • Evaluation of operability and operative risk 

  • Motivated surgical decision-making for simple surgical problems (indication statement), including determining an intervention’s urgency 

  • Basic knowledge on hemostasis, coagulation and anticoagulants 

  • Medicolegal aspects 

  • The operating theatre 

  • Principles of postoperative care 

  • Postoperative complication and problems in their care 

  • Interdisciplinary communication before and after surgery 

  • Skills 

  • Pre-operative information interview 

  • Postoperative information interview 

  • Structurally present a patient’s problem 

  • Primary and secondary wound care 

  • Wound stitching 

  • Bandages, immobilization…  

  • Placement and sterile covering of the patient 

  • Basic techniques for local and regional anesthesia 

  • Arterial and venous puncture, placement of gavage, superficial and deep venous access, arterial access and treatment of their problems 

  • Neurosurgical emergencies 

  • Knowledge 

  • Reanimation 

  • First treatment of neurosurgical emergencies 

  • Initial diagnosis, differential diagnosis and therapy 

  • Concepts of disaster medicine 

  • Neurotrauma 

  • Skills 

  • Placement of external ventricular drain 

  • Placement of parenchymatous pressure measurement 

  • Intensive care 

  • Knowledge 

  • Principles of invasive and non-invasive monitoring of patients 

  • Resuscitation- and weaning techniques 

  • Treatment of hypovolemic, septic, cardiac and toxic states of shock 

  • Basic knowledge on organ-replacing techniques 

  • Neurosurgical infectiology 

  • Criteria of brain death 

  • Principles of organ donation 

Course material
Digital course material (Required) : Tijdschriften in het vakgebied
Digital course material (Required) : EMD
Digital course material (Required) : Gangbare richtlijnen in het ziekenhuis
Additional info

WORKING METHODS 

  • Continuous education in the operating theatre 

  • Bedside teaching 

  • Supervised consultation 

  • Weekly room tour: 3h/week 

  • Sessions for technical skills (e.g. with simulations) 

Learning Outcomes

Skills

OLR 2: Has acquired the skills, inherent to the specialism, and applies these correctly (M).  

OLR 17: Keeps further developing and improving own skills (M).  

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Other Exam determines 100% of the final mark.

Within the Other Exam category, the following assignments need to be completed:

  • Portfolio with a relative weight of 100 which comprises 100% of the final mark.

    Note: portfolio met functioneringsgesprekken en evaluatiegesprek aan het einde van het niveau expert plus (100%)

Additional info regarding evaluation

Portfolio with performance interviews and assessment interview at the end, level expert plus (100%). 

PASS/FAIL 

Allowed unsatisfactory mark
The supplementary Teaching and Examination Regulations of your faculty stipulate whether an allowed unsatisfactory mark for this programme unit is permitted.

Academic context

This offer is part of the following study plans:
Master of Specialist Medicine: Neurosurgery (only offered in Dutch)