Component : DFR Health
Domain: Health
Mention : 2nd year General Training in Medical Sciences
Nature : Diploma course.
Output level : BAC + 2
Location: Cayenne (Troubiran University Campus)
Objectives
Acquisition of fundamental knowledge in the field of medicine covering the following areas: embryology, histology, anatomo-pathology, imaging, physiology, semiology, pharmacology and covering the fields of cardiology, pneumology, gastro-enterology, uro-nephrology, orthopaedics-traumatology, horminology-reproductive system, nutrition, dermatology, infectious diseases, immunology, neuro-psychiatry.
Target skills
Know how the organs of the human body function normally and the pathological signs associated with illnesses. Know how to carry out a clinical examination, propose diagnostic hypotheses and suggest complementary examinations appropriate to the situation.
Admission
Recruitment level : Bac+1
Accessible in : Initial training.
Training required :PASS or LAS validated
Conditions admission : At the end of the written and/or oral examinations, PASS and LAS students must be admitted to the medical stream.
Registration form: Online only on the university website, in July.
Programme
Semester 1
Thematic teaching units
UE1 DFGSM2 and 3 Health Society Humanity
West Indies coordinator: Pr Moustapha DRAME, UA
Guyana coordinators: Prof. Maylis DOUINE, Ms Colline BOUYER and Prof. Bertrand DE TOFFOL; Prof. Hatem KALLEL; Dr Alexandre TAREAU; Prof. Félix DJOSSOU
ED: 40h30
UE2 Molecular and cellular bases of pathologies
West Indies coordinator: Dr Yohann GARNIER, UA
Coordinators for French Guyana: Pr Magalie DEMAR, Pr Ghislaine PREVOT
ED: 8.30pm
UE3 Tissue pathology, illustrations and means of exploration
West Indies coordinator: Pr Karim FARD, UA
Guyana coordinators: Pr Karim FARID, Dr Mohamed Kinan DRAK ALSIBAI -
ED: 25h
UE4 Molecular, cellular and tissue bases of drug treatments
West Indies coordinator: Pr Mathieu MOLIMARD, Bordeaux
French Guiana coordinators: Dr Flaubert NKONTCHO
ED courses: 16 hours online
UE5 General semiology
West Indies coordinator: Pr Christophe DELIGNY, UA
Coordinators for French Guyana: Pr Loïc EPELBOIN, Pr Narcisse ELENGA
UE12 Nutrition
West Indies coordinator: Dr Marie Laure LALANNE-MISTRIH, UA
Coordinators for French Guiana: Pr Nadia SABBAH
ED : 20h
Integrated teaching units
UE6 Digestive system
West Indies coordinator: Pr Jean ROUDIE, UA
Guyana coordinators: Dr Hakim AMROUN / Dr Dominique LOUVEL; Pr Benoit TERRIS, Dr Mohamed Kinan DRAK ALSIBAI; Pr Mathieu MOLIMARD, Dr Flaubert NKONTCHO; Dr Alolia ABOIKONI
ED: 39h
UE7 Respiratory system
West Indies coordinator: Pr Chantal RAHERISON-SEMJEN, UA
Guyana coordinators: Pr Hatem KALLEL / Dr Houari AISSAOUI; Pr Benoit TERRIS, Dr Mohamed Kinan DRAK ALSIBAI; Pr Mathieu MOLIMARD, Dr Flaubert NKONTCHO; Dr Alolia ABOIKONI
ED: 31h30
UE11 Cardiovascular system
West Indies coordinator: Pr Jocelyn INAMO, UA
Guyana coordinators: Dr Yves-Kénol FRANCK, Dr Cyrille MATHIEN; Pr Benoit TERRIS, Dr Mohamed Kinan DRAK ALSIBAI; Pr Mathieu MOLIMARD, Dr Flaubert NKONTCHO; Pr Hatem KALLEL
ED: 32h
Free choice of teaching units (choice of 1 UE)
UE Teaching of didactics open to tutors (1st part)
Coordinators for French Guiana: ED: 30h: Dr Guillaume ICHER; Dr Yann LAMBERT -
EU Hygiene, Quality and Safety of Care
West Indies coordinator: Dr Bruno JARRIGE, CHU Guadeloupe
Coordinators for French Guiana: Pr Félix DJOSSOU
ED : 20h
UE Medical practice in general medicine
Antilles coordinator: Pr Franciane GANE-TROPLENT, Associate Professor of General Medicine, UA
French Guiana coordinators: Dr Timothée BONIFAY
ED : 20h
Semester 2
Thematic teaching units
UE1 Foreign language: English
West Indies coordinator: Mr Fred PLUMAIN, UA
French Guiana coordinators: Dr Ahmed MULLA
ED: 4pm
UE6 DFGSM2 Computer Science
West Indies coordinator: Mr Harry Kancel, UA
French Guiana coordinators: Dr Fabrice QUET
ED: 10.30 a.m.
UE11 DFGSM2 Skin covering
West Indies and French Guiana coordinator: Pr Pierre COUPPIE
ED: 8.30pm
Integrated teaching units
UE8 Musculoskeletal system
West Indies coordinator: Prof André-Pierre Uzel, PU-PH in orthopaedics, Prof in anatomy, UA
Guyana coordinators: Dr Gérard PY; Prof Benoit TERRIS, Dr Mohamed Kinan DRAK ALSIBAI; Prof Mathieu MOLIMARD, Dr Flaubert NKONTCHO
ED: 30h
UE9 Hormonology - reproduction
West Indies coordinator: Pr Olivier PARANT, PU-PH in gynaecology and obstetrics, UA
Guyana coordinators: Pr Nadia SABBAH; Dr Najeh HCINI; Pr Vincent RAVERY, Pr Benoit TERRIS, Dr Mohamed Kinan DRAK ALSIBAI; Pr Mathieu MOLIMARD, Dr Flaubert NKONTCHO
ED: 39h30
UE10 Kidney and urinary tract - Male genital system
West Indies coordinator: Pr Pascal BLANCHET, UA
Guyana coordinators: Prof. Vincent RAVERY; Dr. Tanguy GBAGUIDI; Prof. Benoit TERRIS, Dr. Mohamed Kinan DRAK ALSIBAI; Prof. Mathieu MOLIMARD, Dr. Flaubert NKONTCHO
ED: 34h
Free choice of teaching units (choice of 1 UE)
UE Teaching of didactics open to tutors (2nd part)
Guyana coordinators: Dr Guillaume ICHER; Dr Stéphanie WEBER
ED: 30h
EU Community health/Health mediation in a regional context
Coordinators: Guyana coordinators: Pr Maylis DOUINE, Pr Mathieu NACHER
ED : 20h
EU Introduction to research
West Indies coordinator: Dr Fritz-Line VELAYOUDOM, UA
Guyana coordinators: Pr Antoine ADENIS
ED : 20h
EU Antibiotics
West Indies coordinator: Pr André CABIE, PU-PH in infectiology, UA
Coordinators for French Guiana: Pr Félix DJOSSOU
Courses and Ed: 30 hours online
1st and 2nd semesters
EU Training in first aid and emergency care
Coordinator: Pr Jean-Marc PUJO; Pr Hatem KALLEL
Practical work: 18h
Courses
Number of hours for 1 student
Seven hours/day (full-time), 5 days/week, for 7 weeks, i.e. 245 hours.
During these full-time placements, students must be present on the placement site for 7 hours from Monday to Friday inclusive. A placement day starts between 8am and 9am, at the convenience of the head of department or head of unit.
Organisation:
The practical courses take place during (as an indication) :
- the 2 weeks preceding the Christmas holidays
- the 2 weeks preceding the Mardi Gras holidays
- the 2 weeks preceding the Easter holidays
- one week in June
The reception services are :
- Anaesthesia
- Surgery
- Digestive surgery
- Orthopaedics-Traumatology
- Gynaecology and obstetrics
- Medicine
- Cardiology
- Dermatology
- Endocrinology/diabetes
- Hepato-gastro-enterology
- Infectious and tropical diseases
- Internal medicine
- Nephrology
- Neurology
- Paediatrics
- Paediatrics
- Paediatric emergencies
- Psychiatry
- Emergency, intensive care, continuing care, resuscitation
- Adult intensive care
- Adult emergencies
- Hospital laboratory (microbiology/haematology/immunology)
- Research laboratory
The host departments are located at the hospitals in Cayenne. Internships at the Kourou and Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni hospitals are possible on request, in a department that is approved for interns.
At least one placement in a "gynaecology-obstetrics", "medicine", "paediatrics", and "emergency, intensive care, continuous care, resuscitation" department is compulsory during the two years of the DFGSM (and "surgery" depending on availability). However, students may not do more than one placement in gynaecology-obstetrics or paediatrics.
Job opportunities
- Access to the 3th year of the General Training Diploma in Medical Sciences - DFGSM3
Sectors of activity
- Medicine
Health
Health UFR
Management
Prof. Pierre COUPPIE
Director
Prof. Mathieu NACHER
Deputy Director
Ms Sandrine ADONIS
Administrative and Financial Manager
Guillaume ICHER
MCF Associate Professor - Tutoring Manager
Scholarship
Mrs Romy BAAL-OTHILY
Schooling Manager
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Ms Véronique KONOE
Schooling Manager
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Ms Victorine MAZONOE
Schooling Manager
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Ms Raymonde ONOZO
Schooling Manager
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Endrow PHIBEL
Apparitor
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Reception
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