Objectives of general skills

• Develop reasoning skills
• Understand and apply Bayesian inference
• Manage resources
• Understand the organisation of the health system and its social dimension
• Integrate an economic dimension in clinical reasoning
• Promote health
• Understand a global approach to health incorporating prevention and screening
• Identify community health problems in the various teachings
• Understand the fundamentals of health education
• Manage their studies
• Have developed an interest for medicine
• Locate scientific information efficiently
• Read, interpret, and critique a scientific article
• Compare different sources of information
• Be a responsible practitioner
• Base reasoning on the data taken from scientific literature (evidence-based-medicine)

UE's Learning outcomes

  At the end of the learning process, students will be able to:
- deal with health in a global approach including prevention and screening
- understand the main problems involved in public health
- understand the basics of health education
- understand the organisations of the healthcare system and its place in our society
- include economic, social, statistical, epidemiological and ethical preoccupations in its clinical approach
- acquire a critical mind based on the Evidence Based Medicine by analysing public health-related literature

UE Content

Chapter 1: introduction to public health
Chapter 2: healthcare organisation in Belgium
Chapter 3: Belgians' health and demography
Chapter 4: Main challenges in belgian public health
Chapter 5: A few actions of public health in Belgium
Chapter 6: World et European health

Prior experience

bio-statistics

Term 2 for Integrated Assessment - type

• Written examination

Term 3 for Integrated Assessment - type

• Written examination