10 ECTS credits
300 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 6021894FNR 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
Clinical sciences
Educational team
Marc Meysman (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 wide array of domains within the specialism throughout the education.  

During these internships the ASO acquires specific skills on: 

  • Lung function research 

  • Spirometry 

  • Flow-volume loops 

  • Body plethysmography  

  • Dilution techniques 

  • Measurement of diffusion capacity 

  • Cardiopulmonary effort research 

  • Test of 6 minutes of walking 

  • Inhalation provocation research 

  • Measurement of maximal in- and expiratory pressure 

  • Arterial blood-gas analysis (puncture and interpretation) 

  • Invasive procedures 

  • Blind pleurabiopsy with Abrahams needle 

  • Transthoracic biopsy and pleural puncture (diagnostic/evacuating) 

  • Manual aspiration of pneumothorax 

  • Placement of thorax drain 

  • Flexible bronchoscopy  

  • Bronchoalveolar lavage  

  • Endotracheal intubation 

  • Central venous catheterization  

Limited technical experience with rigid bronchoscopy, thoracoscopy (pleurodeses, sympatheticysis), EBUS, specific bronchoprovocation tests, artificial respiration at home 

Skin allergic investigation, placement of intradermal tuberculin test 

Polysomnography (indication, interpretation) 

Artificial respiration techniques (invasive and non-invasive) 

Trachea cannula exchanges 

Oxygen therapy (acute and chronic) 

The ASO is given the chance to practice a wide array of domains within the specialism throughout the education.  

During these internships the ASO acquires specific skills on: 

  • Lung function research 

  • Spirometry 

  • Flow-volume loops 

  • Body plethysmography  

  • Dilution techniques 

  • Measurement of diffusion capacity 

  • Cardiopulmonary effort research 

  • Test of 6 minutes of walking 

  • Inhalation provocation research 

  • Measurement of maximal in- and expiratory pressure 

  • Arterial blood-gas analysis (puncture and interpretation) 

  • Invasive procedures 

  • Blind pleurabiopsy with Abrahams needle 

  • Transthoracic biopsy and pleural puncture (diagnostic/evacuating) 

  • Manual aspiration of pneumothorax 

  • Placement of thorax drain 

  • Flexible bronchoscopy  

  • Bronchoalveolar lavage  

  • Endotracheal intubation 

  • Central venous catheterization  

Limited technical experience with rigid bronchoscopy, thoracoscopy (pleurodeses, sympatheticysis), EBUS, specific bronchoprovocation tests, artificial respiration at home 

Skin allergic investigation, placement of intradermal tuberculin test 

Polysomnography (indication, interpretation) 

Artificial respiration techniques (invasive and non-invasive) 

Trachea cannula exchanges 

Oxygen therapy (acute and chronic) 

 

Course material
Practical course material (Required) : Praktijk Cursussen Belgische Vereniging voor Pneumologie LFO
Digital course material (Required) : European Respiratory Society gespecialiseerde opleidingen en cursussen.
Additional info

  • Technical activities/endoscopy (flexible endoscopy, punctures, arterial blood-gas analysis), 3h/day 

  • Lung function lab (1h/day) or ergospirometry (2x 3h per week) 

  • Operative activity under guidance of a staff member (rigid bronchoscopy, flexible bronchoscopy, thoracoscopy, intubation) 

  • Sleeping lab (3h/week) 

  • RIZIV convention AOT (including CPAP) and LTOT, 1h/day 

 

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: unctioneringsgesprekken en evaluatiegesprek aan het einde van het niveau expert plus (100%)

Additional info regarding evaluation

Assessment by a staff member of DOPS on specific technical activity.  

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: Respiratory Medicine (only offered in Dutch)