COURSE UNIT TITLE

: GENERAL PHARMACOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
VET 2004 GENERAL PHARMACOLOGY COMPULSORY 2 2 0 4

Offered By

Veterinary Medicine

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR MEHMET ENSARI GÜNELI

Offered to

Veterinary Medicine

Course Objective

The aim of this course is to give basic information about the chemical and metabolic properties of drugs used in the treatment of animal diseases, determination of effective and lethal doses of drugs, and also their application, prescription and licensing.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Learns the definition of the drug
2   Has knowledge about drug doses
3   Learns to write a prescription
4   Has information about the metabolism of the drugs in the body

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Drugs: Definition, sources, nomenclature, doses, structure-effect relationship and medical chemistry
2 Ways of using drugs and absorption
3 Distribution of drugs in the body
4 Changes to drugs in the body
5 Disposal of medicines
6 Kinetic calculations, absorption, disintegration, excretion and metabolism kinetics, binding to plasma proteins, plasma drug density
7 Mode of action of drugs
8 Dose intensity effect relationship
9 Interaction between drugs, factors that change the effects of drugs
10 Drug resistance and addiction
11 Undesirable effects of drugs
12 Classification, licensing, distribution, sale and control of veterinary medicine
13 Drug forms
14 Writing a prescription

Recomended or Required Reading

Veteriner Uygulamalı Farmakoloji, Cilt 1 (S. Kaya, I. Pirinççi, A. Bilgili)
Veteriner Uygulamalı Farmakoloji, Cilt 2 (S. Kaya, I. Pirinççi, A. Bilgili)

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, written, interactive, seminar, practice

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 FIN FINAL EXAM
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.40 + RST * 0.60


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Students will be evaluated with the questions to be asked in the midterm and final exam.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

The responsibility of continuing to 70% of theoretical courses and 80% of laboratory practices during the semester belongs to the student.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dokuz Eylul University Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Department of Internal Medicine
Tel: 0 (232) 572 35 30- 14504
Mail: pelinfatos.polat@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Labratory 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Preparation for midterm exam 1 7 7
Preparation for final exam 2 5 10
Final 1 1 1
Midterm 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 89

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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CONTACT INFORMATION
Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi Cumhuriyet Bulvarı No: 144 35210 Alsancak / İZMİR
Phone: +90(232) 412 12 12 - Fax: +90 (232) 464 81 35

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