COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PLANT AND FOOD POISONINGS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TOK 6061 PLANT AND FOOD POISONINGS ELECTIVE 1 0 0 3

Offered By

Toxicology

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

Offered to

Toxicology

Course Objective

To learn toxic mechanisms of plants and foods, to classificate the toxic plant and food types and to have knowledge about general specialities of plant and food toxins, to determine the toxic potantials of plants and foods, to learn the toxic effects plants and foods, to learn diagnosis of plant and food poisonings, and to convey information about plant and food poisonings.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To define the plant and food poisonings
2   To compare the types of plant and food poisonings
3   To learn the treatment principles of plant and food poisonings
4   To make risk assesment in plant and food poisonings
5   To have knowledge about plant and food poisonings and to know importence of toxic effects

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Basic principals of plant poisonings 13- Basic principals of food poisonings
2 Poisoning with household plants 14- Botulismus
3 Poisoning with anticholinergic plants 15- Poisoning with seafoods
4 Poisoning with nicotinic plants
5 Poisoning with hallusinogenic plants
6 Poisoning with cardiotoxic plants
7 Poisoning with hematopoietic toxic plants
8 Poisoning with hepatotoxic plants
9 Poisoning with nephrotoxic plants
10 Poisoning with gastointestinal toxic plants
11 Poisoning with epileptogenic plants
12 Poisoning with mushrooms

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
1. Ford M.D., Delaney K.A., Ling L.J., Erickson T. Toxins in Depth. In: Ford M.D. editor. Clinical Toxicology. 1. edition, Pennyylvania: W.B. Saunders Company; 2001. pp. 265-602.

Supplementary Book(s):
1. Bitkilerle Zehirlenmeler. T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı Birinci Basamağa Yönelik Zehirlenmeler Tanı ve Tedavi Rehberleri. Ed. Yeşim Tunçok, Nuri Kalyoncu. Yücel Ofset Matbaacılık, 2007:171-180.
2. POISINDEX® System: Klasco RK (Ed): POSINDEX® System. Thomson Micromedex, Greenwood Village, Colorado
3. DRUGDEX® System: Klasco RK (Ed): DRUGDEX® System. Thomson Micromedex, Greenwood Village, Colorado
4. Matthew J. Ellenhorn. The Home. Içinde: Ellenhorn M.J. editör. Ellenhorn s Medical Toxicology Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Poisoning. 2. baskı. National Publishing; 1997. s. 1036-1078.

References:
1. Levine M, Ruha AM, Graeme K, Brooks DE, Canning J, Curry SC. Toxicology in the ICU: part 3: natural toxins. Chest. 2011;140(5):1357-1370.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

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


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

A topic of the course outline which is choose with course coordinator must be present as a report.

Assessment Criteria

To be succesful in final exam and, to present a topic in course outline as a report

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Nil Hocaoglu Aksay, MD
Department of Medical Pharmacology
e-mail: nil.hocaoglu@deu.edu.tr
Phone: 4123908

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 15 1 15
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 15 3 45
Preparation for final exam 1 6 6
Preparing presentations 1 7 7
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 75

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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