universiteit antwerpen - Course detail 2010 - 2011 - Master of Insurance Medicine and Medico-legal Expertise

Important notice on language

This programme is mainly taught in Dutch.

Qualification awarded

In order to obtain the degree of Master of Insurance Medicine and Medico-legal Expertise the student

should be enrolled for the programme in question under a diploma contract or under an exam contract to obtain a diploma
should have taken all the exams that the programme encompasses
should previously have registered for the programme with the examination board.
should have acquired at least 120 ECTS-credits

The programme consists of 120 ECTS-credits.
In a model academic year, the student takes between 54 and 66 ECTS-credits.

Admission requirements

Direct: diploma of medical doctor

Objectives and learning outcomes

The aim of the programme is to prepare medical doctors for his/her profession where he/she will have to give independent and scientifically well-founded advice in relation to insurance medicine, in social insurance as well as private insurance. The programme concentrates on offering knowledge, skill training and practical training with an emphasis on the medical aspects of human damage and on the legal and organisational aspects of insurance companies. Students are expected to have developed the necessary competences to independently play an important role in the functioning of institutions insuring health care and medical costs and in evaluating human damage. For this they will need to:

have a thorough knowledge of different disciplines (medical, legal, social aspects) and their interaction
have a critical mind helping them to evaluate scientific and social aspects
be able to analyse scientific literature and evaluate it critically
be able to contribute to solving problems based on their own research
be able to transfer acquired knowledge so that it is understood

Access to further studies

NA

Final examination

A student’s final result is a weighted average of the exam results the student has obtained for all the programme components of his/her training programme. In calculating the final result, the credits corresponding to the various programme components are used for weighting the results obtained for those components.

The final result is expressed as an integer out of 100.

A student whose final result is less than 50 out of 100 can never be declared successful.

A student is successful for the training programme if he/she has obtained credits for all the programme components in his/her training programme.

For more information see the Education and Examination regulation.

ECTS co-ordinator

K. Van Liempt, karel.vanliempt@ua.ac.be

T. De Roeck, tina.deroeck@ua.ac.be (admin)