COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HEALTH ADMINISTRAITON IN DISASTERS

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
UKA 8029 HEALTH ADMINISTRAITON IN DISASTERS COMPULSORY 3 0 0 6

Offered By

Distance Learning Non-thesis Master's Degree in Disaster Administration

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ZERRIN TOPRAK KARAMAN

Offered to

Distance Learning Non-thesis Master's Degree in Disaster Administration

Course Objective

Health problems encountered in disaster, traumas, injures and the frequency of accidents caused by disasters, investigate the cause of them and teach, assess the epidemiology of disasters demographically, ensure good management of first aid services in hospitals in the case of disaster for providing efficient health services, making disaster triage (injured classification) in disaster and teach encoding patients in emergency, raise awareness of non-governmental organizations and take their contributions, examine post-traumatic stress disorders in disasters, investigate connections with burnout syndrome, teach necessary interventions and practices of first aid.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Be able to show how it would be the effective emergency services organizations
2   Be able to teach epidemiology and triage studies in disasters, raise awareness
3   Be able to raise awareness with regard to trauma systems and hospital organizations
4   Be able to develop strategies featured topic like nuclear, biological and chemical weapons injures and provide applicability
5   Be able to manage psychological support services like post-traumatic stress disorder and burnout syndrome and raise awareness
6   Be able to adjust hospital emergency services to emergency situations

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 A general overview of the course and development of an emergency medical system in Turkey
2 Ideal emergency service architecture
3 Emergency service management and organization
4 Disaster plans in hospitals
5 Disasters and non-governmental organizations
6 Disaster epidemiology
7 Disaster triage
8 Nuclear, biological and chemical weapons injuries and emergency medical services
9 Crush
10 Burnout Syndrome in disasters
11 Death notice to patients relatives
12 First aid applications in disasters
13 First aid applications in disasters
14 General Evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

To be announced.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

To remind the topics of the previous lesson for 15 minutes.
To give a general overview on the topic of the current week.
To give a lecture accompanied by a presentation prepared using the materials provided by the basic course book and other resources.
To make control-oriented brainstorming practices during some weeks.
To support the course topics with sample event examinations.
To analyze the given case studies.
To internalize the knowledge of students through homework applications.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER)
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.20 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + STT * 0.20 + RST* 0.50


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

To be announced.

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Doç.Dr.Gürkan Ersoy

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Preparation for final exam 1 15 15
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Final 1 3 3
Midterm 1 3 3
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 140

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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