Arnaud DE ROOVER
The rapid evolution of knowledge and the reform of teaching, with a reduction in the duration of studies, reinforce the need to provide students with the keys to clinical reasoning that will enable them to integrate future developments.
Arnaud De Roover, Associate Professor in Abdominal and Endocrine Surgical Pathology. Picture : @MichelHouet
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rnaud De Roover obtained his doctorate in Medicine, Surgery and Childbirth in 1994 and his specialist diploma in Surgery in 2000 from the University of Liège. During his surgical training, he directed his research in the fields of organ preservation and intestinal and multivisceral transplantation, benefiting from the experience acquired through a one-year research fellowship at the University of Birmingham, UK and a two-year clinical fellowship at the University of Nebraska, USA. These different experiences allowed him to successfully defend, in 2002, a doctoral thesis in Medical Sciences at ULiège. He then pursued his professional activity at the University Hospital of Liège as Head of Clinic in the department of Pr Michel Meurisse, with an activity mainly focused on organ transplantation, metabolic surgery and the development of minimally invasive, esophageal, bilio-pancreatic and hepatic oncologic surgery. During this period, Arnaud De Roover carried out several teaching assignments in transplantation, pediatric surgery and oncology. "In 2015, I took over the management of the abdominal and general surgery department at the CHR de Liège for four years, allowing me to develop inter-hospital synergies that have become essential today. In charge of the abdominal, endocrine and transplant surgery department at the University Hospital of Liège for the past few weeks, I have been supported by a dynamic and competent team to develop our centres of excellence such as oncology, endocrine and transplant surgery, but also to meet new challenges such as the centralization of complex oesophageal and pancreatic surgery at the University Hospital. "
Teaching must also generate interest in surgical research in a translational context
"Surgical teaching is positioned at the end of the training and confronts the teacher with a dual mission of transmitting knowledge and empowering the student. Theoretical instruction is essential to provide students with a basic knowledge of medicine. The rapid evolution of knowledge and the reform of teaching with a reduction in the duration of studies reinforce the need to provide them with the keys to clinical reasoning that will enable them to integrate future developments. "
"This learning is based on the discussion of clinical cases encountered in the practice of our service. The interrelationship between the different courses justifies the continuation of an integrated teaching of surgery with the medical side. Surgery is always based on a spirit of companionship that leads students to discover semiology, anatomy and diagnostic and therapeutic principles during their hospital internships. Technological advances are bringing new tools such as simulators that help to translate theoretical data into reality. The teacher must also arouse interest in surgical research that is primarily positioned in a translational context. It can be based on the interactions of our department with the other departments of the University Hospital Center and the research laboratories with which we will continue to develop collaborations. "
