ARRIVAL GUIDE
Welcome to Brussels and to the Erasme Hospital ICU Fellowship!
This is a space designed to support you during your first days at the hospital and in life in this city.
For any question —clinical, practical, or everyday— feel free to reach out to anyone in the Fellows’ group: there will always be someone available to help. We have all been there, and everyone has had a first day.
The main entrance is on
Route de Lennik 808, 1070 Anderlecht, Brussel.
Erasme Hospital is located in the southwest of Brussels,
at the terminus of Metro line 5 (Erasme station).
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The hospital is directly accessible by metro from the city center, and from the Erasme metro station it is only a short walk to the hospital buildings and the ICU.
FIRST DAY AT THE HOSPITAL?
WRITE US A MESSAGE SOME DAYS BEFORE!
A fellow referent will welcome you and help you navigate the hospital, create your badge, collect uniforms, and access the IT system with your credentials.
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You will follow a period of clinical work or research, depending on individual agreements.
Below you will find an overview of the typical working hours.
General organisation of the fellow's work
Depending on your needs and interests, work will be divided into clinical, research or both.
CLINIC
Clinical work starts at 8.15 a.m. with the morning remise, i.e. the handover with colleagues from the night shift, and lasts 40 to 50 min.
After the remise, each fellow goes to the intensive care unit (in French USI, unite soins intensif) to which he or she was previously assigned to start the working day.
The morning is divided into:
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handover with the nurses, division of patient care among the residents, rounds with examination prescriptions
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performance/scheduling of any procedures or radiological examinations, discussion about patients ("tour") with the attending at around 11 a.m.
After the lunch break, the afternoon is divided into: clinical diary writing, any procedures, handover for colleagues starting the night shift at around 5 p.m.
RESEARCH
The focus of research at Erasme is on the neurological field.
However, there is also the possibility of working in other contexts (e.g. haemodynamics, cardiac arrest, experiments on preclinical models).
About once a month we meet with prof. Taccone to discuss ongoing research projects and to assign new projects to fellows who do not yet have active work.