10 ECTS credits
300 h study time
Offer 1 with catalog number 6021930ENR for all students in the 1st and 2nd semester
at
a (E) Master - advanced 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
- Clinical sciences
- Educational team
- Ives Hubloue
(course titular)
- Activities and contact hours
- 50 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
120 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
- Course Content
The following topics are more extensively discussed:
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Cardial emergencies: acute cardiac arrhythmias, cardiac decompensation, pulmonary edema and acute hypertension
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Anesthesia and analgesia
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Trauma: general approach
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ATLS – Advanced Trauma Life Support/ETC: European Trauma Course
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Trauma: thoraxtrauma, penetrating trauma and injection trauma, abdominal trauma
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Trauma: braintrauma, cervical lesions and vertebral lesions
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Trauma: shock
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Prehospital immobilization and wound care
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Anaphylaxis – moisture and transfusion policy
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Breathing difficulties: asthma, dyspnea, respiratory insufficiency
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Point of care ultrasound in emergency medicine: rush protocol, eFAST, vascular access
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Cardial emergencies: pain in the chest
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Neurology: minimal clinical-neurological research, coma
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Consciousness disorders, epilepsy, CVA, headache, muscle diseases
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Infective emergencies
- Course material
- Digital course material (Required) : Tijdschriften in het vakgebied
Digital course material (Required) : : Uptodate en evidence based databanken ( www.uptodate.com; www.accessmedicine.com,.. ).
- Additional info
Mortality & Morbidity Cases (4x 1,5h per year)
Course on BLS, ALS, APLS and point of care ultrasound in emergency medicine – first two years ALS = 20h in total, BLS = 2h 1x, APS = 20h 1x, POCUS = 16h theory + 50h self
Basic Course Disaster Management – 20h
Webex: interuniversity videoconferencing 2x per month 0.5h. 1x case report, 1x literature review (also with peripheral hospitals). In 2 years 1x 5h self.
Tintinalli-sessions: 1x per week 2h (once a year 10h self, for own session) – substantive deepening of the basic manual “Emergency Medicine, a comprehensive study guide”
Daily debriefings: 2h/day
Continued interuniversity education (Flemish Academy for Emergency Medicine): 4 classes per year (whole day: 6.5h) – preparation for European Board Exam Part A (exam taken in year 4, 5 or 6) – spread over 2 years
- Learning Outcomes
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Insights
OLR 1: Has acquired profound medical knowledge and insights in the specialism
Skills
OLR 2: Has acquired the skills, inherent to the specialism, and applies these correctly
OLR 19: Satisfies the general and specific final objectives, inherent to the specialism, concerning diagnostics and diseases/disorders
Attitudes
OLR 17: Keeps further developing and improving own skills
- Grading
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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 beoordelingsgesp met een wegingsfactor 1 en aldus 100% van het totale eindcijfer.
- Additional info regarding evaluation
Portfolio with assessment interview with a relative weight of 1 and thus 100% of the final mark.
Explanation: portfolio with assessment interview (Pass/Fail)
Compulsory participation in the exploratory MUG trial of the Flemish Academy for Emergency Medicine (VAUG)
- 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: Emergency Medicine (only offered in Dutch)