5 ECTS credits
150 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 4022136ENR for all students in the 1st semester at a (E) Master - advanced level.

Semester
1st semester
Enrollment based on exam contract
Impossible
Grading method
Grading (scale from 0 to 20)
Can retake in second session
Yes
Taught in
Dutch
Faculty
Faculteit Geneeskunde en Farmacie
Department
Faculteit Geneeskunde en Farmacie
Educational team
Michel Deneyer (course titular)
Mark De Ridder
Koen Putman
Maarten Moens
Lore Decoster
Ines Van Rossem
Glenn Boulanger
Lotta Coenen
Eva Kimpe
Ramses Forsyth
Dirk Van Varenbergh
Activities and contact hours
48 contact hours Lecture
Course Content

This course provides an insight into the core concepts of the different topics.

1. Medical ethics

  1. Introduction to medical ethics: argumentation theories and principlism
  2. The patient's right to self-determination
  3. The law on patient rights
  4. The concept of good patienthood
  5. The concept of informed consent
  6. The concept of therapeutic freedom versus responsibility of the doctor
  7. Professional secrecy and compliance with privacy rules regarding health data
  8. The protection measures for incapacitated patients

2. Judicial medicine

  1. Introduction to judicial medicine
  2. Clinical forensic medicine (child abuse and child neglect, physical violence in adults, sexual aggression, judicial medicine and traffic)
  3. Doctor's intervention in the event of a death
  4. The police corpse (investigation at the crime scene, investigation in the mortuary)
  5. The judicial autopsy
  6. Post-mortem identification
  7. Thanatology (algorithm mortis, post-mortem hypostasis, rigor mortis, dehydration of the corpse, dissolution)
  8. Thanato etiology

3. Expertise and insurance medicine:

  1. Contexts - type and damage - determination of physical damage
  2. The medically-legal context, the medically-legal damage assessment.

4. Anatomopathology:

  1. Introduction to special anatomopathology
  2. Cancer: 'basics'
  3. Biomarkers in cancer - immunotherapy
  4. Histopathological characteristics of cancer

5. Basic principles of cancer

  1. introduction
  2. diagnostics
  3. staging
  4. basic principles of radiotherapy
  5. basic principles of chemotherapy

These and other aspects of social topics are further discussed in the Clinical and social topics II and III or integrative lectures sections. These other aspects include youth health care, elderly care and mental health

Course material
Digital course material (Required) : Het cursusmateriaal bestaat uit kopies van de gebruikte slides en/of cursusnota's. Additionele referenties naar studiemateriaal en digitale bronnen, Canvas
Additional info

The course material consists of copies of the used slides and / or course notes, made digitally available to the students. Additional references to study material and digital sources are communicated on Canvas.

Learning Outcomes

Leerresultaten

The student knows the common concepts related to different domains

Grading

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

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

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

    Note: Schriftelijk gesloten boek examen

Additional info regarding evaluation

The final evaluation is the arithmetic mean of 20 points

Written closed book exam on the lectures at the end of the first semester.

The written exam consists of 5 parts

1. Medical ethics

2. Judicial medicine

3. Expertise and insurance medicine

4. Anatomopathology

5. Basic principles of cancer

Each part is scored /20.

If students fail two or more of the six components, or if they achieve a score lower than 7 for one component despite a possibly sufficient average final grade, then they have not passed the written exam. With a result of at least 10/20, partial results are automatically transferred to the second session. In this case (thus only if the student did not pass the course, the student who nevertheless wishes to retake one or more exam components, can send an e-mail to the lecturer, at the latest before the start of the second session. Once the student has indicated that he wants to abandon his partial result, he will irrevocably lose this partial result. This transfer is only permitted between sessions within the same academic year. Transferring points to a following academic year is not permitted, even though there are legitimate reasons for not participating in a session in the current academic year. If a student does not pass the second examination period according to the above criteria, he must retake all parts of the course unit in the following academic year.

The final evaluation of the acquired competences of the entire Topics trajectory (Clinical and Social Topics I, II and III and Integrative colleges) takes place in an integrated manner during an oral evaluation after completing the course "Integrative Colleges".

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 Medicine: Standaard traject ma gk 3 jr (only offered in Dutch)