COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EPIDEMIOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
VET 2028 EPIDEMIOLOGY COMPULSORY 1 0 0 2

Offered By

Veterinary Medicine

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR VOLKAN ÖZAVCI

Offered to

Veterinary Medicine

Course Objective

Teaching students the basic concepts of epidemiology,
- Ensuring that students have information about the factors affecting the emergence, contamination and spread of diseases that they may encounter during their education and professional life,
- Teaching what needs to be done for disease control and eradication

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   The student learns the purpose, fields of activity and divisions of epidemiology.
2   The student learns disease determinants
3   The student learns the modes of transmission of infections, the factors affecting their spread and the types of infections.
4   The student learns the structure of animal populations, the course and incidence of diseases in the population, epidemiological rates and measurement methods.
5   The student learns the distribution of diseases and ecological concepts.
6   Learns epidemiological research types and stages
7   The student learns the properties of health charts
8   The student learns the classification and characteristics of zoonotic infections.
9   The student learns disease control and eradication methods, factors affecting control and eradication, control and eradication of important infectious diseases.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 The purpose and parts of epidemiology; characterization of disease, planning and monitoring of control programs, and descriptive, experimental, analytical and theoretical epidemiology
2 Disease determinants; host determinants, causative determinants, environmental determinants
3 Transmission and spread of infections; The ways of entry of microorganisms into the body, their spread in the body, their exit from the body, the modes of transmission of microorganisms, the factors related to the spread of infections.
4 Types of infection; classification according to their localization in the body and their course in the body
5 The structure of animal populations, the course and incidence of diseases in the population, epidemiological rates, measurement methods
6 Distribution of diseases; temporal distribution of diseases, determination of temporal distribution, spatial distribution of diseases
7 Midterm Exam
8 Epidemiological research types; qualitative research, quantitative research; analytical experimental research, analytical observational research, model study, and continuous observation
9 Epidemiological research stages; the purpose and design of the research, the nature of the data, the coding of the data, the collection of data by sampling, the epidemiological data sources, the analysis and presentation of the data.
10 Health charts; characteristics of health charts, dairy cow health charts, beef cattle health charts, sheep health charts, chicken health charts
11 Zoonoses; classification of zoonoses, important zoonoses, zoonotic agents and modes of transmission
12 Zoonoses; important zoonoses, zoonotic agents and modes of transmission
13 Control and eradication of diseases; disease control and eradication methods, factors affecting control and eradication, control and eradication of important infectious diseases
14 Control and eradication of diseases; control and eradication of major infectious diseases

Recomended or Required Reading

Diker, S. : Epidemiyoloji, A.Ü. Veteriner Fakültesi Öğrenci Ders Notu, Ankara, 1994
Erganiş , O., Uçan,US : Veteriner Epidemiyoloji, Mimoza Yayınları, Konya, 2001

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture, Practice, Discussion, Individual Study, Homework, Seminar, Case Report

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


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The student will be evaluated with the questions to be asked in the midterm and final exams.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Dokuz Eylül Ünivercity Veterinary faculty
Kiraz/Izmir
Tel.: 0 (232) 572 35 30 -14533
E-mail: volkan.ozavci@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 1 14
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 3 2 6
Preparation for midterm exam 2 2 4
Preparation for final exam 2 2 4
Preparing presentations 2 2 4
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 2 2 4
Midterm 1 1 1
Final 1 1 1
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 38

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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