Pratical informations

Venue and schedule

The program will be held in Brussels from November 2019 to May 2020.
Courses are held over 4 sessions of 3 days (Thursday, Friday and Saturday).

DATE

TOPICS

TIME

Day 1
November 21, 2019

Registration and welcome

1 h

Introduction to humanitarian medicine

1 h

Introduction to humanitarian surgery

1 h

War surgery (part 1)

5 h

Day 2
November 22, 2019

War surgery (part 2)

4 h

Resuscitation and anaesthesia

4 h

Day 3
November 23, 2019

Head, neck, and spine surgery

4 h

Plastic surgery

4 h

Day 4
January 23, 2020

Thoracic surgery

4 h

Vascular surgery

4 h

Day 5
January 24, 2020

Abdominal surgery

 

8 h

Day 6
January 25, 2020

Urologic surgery

4 h

Tabletop exercise in war surgery

3 h

Day 7
March 19, 2020

Obstetrics

 

8 h

Day 8
March 20, 2020

Pediatric surgery

8 h

Day 9
March 21, 2020

Orthopaedic trauma

8 h

Day 10
May 14, 2020

Logistics, pharmaceutics and specific questions

6 h

Practical exercise of triage on mass casualty

2 h

Day 11
May 15, 2020

Hands-on lab

8 h

Day 12
May 16, 2020

Evaluation

5 h


Working language

English

 

Enrolment procedure

Registration for the certificate

Candidates are invited to complete the admission form and to send the letter of motivation to the address : humanitarian-surgery@uclouvain.be.

Registrations are open until 31 Augustus 2019.  

The candidates shall be selected on the basis of their admission documentation and their motivation letter.   The Academic Professors shall decide on all the applications and the participants shall be informed by 15 September 2019.  The number of participants is limited to 30 to guarantee the program’s quality. The group of participants may comprise a maximum of 15 assistants. 

Some places are also reserved for MSF personnel. The organizers reserve the right to cancel or postpone the certificate, should the number of participants be insufficient.

Request for observer status

Individuals who do not fulfil the admission conditions and would like to attend only some modules of the course may apply for observer status by sending an email at humanitarian-surgery@uclouvain.be. These applications shall be examined in the order in which they are received.   These places are limited to 10 by the academic organisers.   In order to guarantee the educational quality of certain courses, it could well be that this number is further restricted for certain modules. 


Contact

Want to find out more ?
email : humanitarian-surgery@uclouvain.be