10 ECTS credits
300 h study time

Offer 1 with catalog number 6021983FNR 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
Nathalie Vanderbruggen (course titular)
Activities and contact hours
80 contact hours Seminar, Exercises or Practicals
200 contact hours Independent or External Form of Study
Course Content

The ASO is more extensively instructed in a broad array of domains within the specialism, necessary for the applications in the practice that are mentioned in problem-solving capability and skills.   

The ASO can perform a differential diagnostic process. 

The ASO possesses the interpersonal attitudes to start a good therapeutic relationship.   

Etiopathogenesis: 

  • Neuropsychology 

  • Genetics 

  • Neurosciences 

Pharmacology: 

  • GGZ 

  • Psychiatric diagnostics 

  • Psychodiagnostics 

  • Antidepressants: Koen Demyttenaere 

  • Mood stabilizers 

  • Emergencies 

  • Hypnotics, sedatives, anxiolytics 

  • Stimulators/dependencies 

  • Antipsychotics 

 

  • Anxiety disorders and OCD 

  • Schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders 

  • Drug-related disorders and addiction disorders 

  • Depressive and bipolar mood disorders 

  • Eating disorders 

 

  • Sex/gender 

  • Somatic symptom disorder and related disorders 

  • Psychotherapy 

  • Suicide 

  • Consultative and L

  • Liaison psychiatry 

  • Gerontopsychiatry 

  • Neurocognitive disorders 

  • Child and youth psychiatry 

  • Sleep disorders 

  • Ethics and deontology – insurance medicine 

  • Forensic psychiatry 

  • Transcultural psychiatry 

  • Personality disorders

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  • Neurobiological development disorders

  •  mental retardation 

  • Disruptive-, impulse-, control- and other behavioral disorders 

Course material
Handbook (Recommended) : DSM-5, Handboek voor classificatie van psychische stoornissen, 3de, Boom Uitgevers Amsterdam, American Psychiatric Assciation, 9789024447503, 2022
Digital course material (Required) : Slides van presentaties
Digital course material (Required) : Wetenschappelijke literatuur, via Pubmed, Web of Science
Handbook (Recommended) : New Oxford Textbook of Psychiatry, Michael G Gelder, Nancy C Andreasen, Juan J López-Ibor Jr, John R Geddes, 3de, Oxford University Press, 9780198713005, 2020
Handbook (Recommended) : Psychofarmacotherapie, Michel Dierick, Stephan Claes, André De Nayer, Paul Cosyns, Eric Constant, Daniel Souery, Academia Press, 9789038218588, 2012
Digital course material (Recommended) : Materiaal aangereikt binnen de gekozen psychotherapie richting, seminaries,, Uptodate.com
Handbook (Recommended) : Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry, David Taylor, Thomas Barnes, Allan Young, 13de, Wiley, 9781119772224, 2021
Handbook (Recommended) : Leerboek Psychiatrie, Hengeveld m.w., van Balkom, A.J.L.M.,van Heeringen, C., Sabbe, B.G.C., 3de, De Tijdstroom, Utrecht, 9789058982780, 2016
Additional info

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Learning Outcomes

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 syndromes/diseases.  

Attitudes

OLR 17: Keeps further developing and improving own skills. 

Grading

The final grade is composed based on the following categories:
Written Exam determines 50% of the final mark.
Other Exam determines 50% of the final mark.

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

  • Interuniversitair examen with a relative weight of 50 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

    Note: Schriftelijk examen: interuniversitair met een wegingsfactor 1 en aldus 50% van het totale eindcijfer.

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

  • Portfolio with a relative weight of 50 which comprises 50% of the final mark.

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

Additional info regarding evaluation

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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: Psychiatry, Adult Psychiatry (only offered in Dutch)