COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PESTICIDE TOXICOLOGY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TOK 5010 PESTICIDE TOXICOLOGY ELECTIVE 1 0 0 2

Offered By

Toxicology

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR MUALLA AYLIN ARICI

Offered to

Toxicology

Course Objective

Classification of pesticides which have acute and chronic exposure. Toxic effects, treatments of pesticides. To have knowledge of biologic monitoring of pesticides.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Classification of pesticides
2   To learn toxic effect mechanisms of pesticides
3   To learn the effects of human health of pesticides
4   To learn biological monitoring of pesticide poisonings
5   To learn the diagnosis and treatment of pesticide poisonings

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 General assesments of pesticides
2 Acute poisonings of organophosphates-1 (effect mechanism, toxic effects)
3 Acute poisonings of organophosphates -2 (diagnosis and treatment methods)
4 Use of pralidoxime in organophosphate poisonings
5 Chronic exposure of organophosphate poisonings
6 Biologic monitoring of organophosphate poisonings
7 The prognosis of organophosphate poisonings
8 Poisoning with carbamates-1 (effect mechanism, toxic effects)
9 Poisoning with carbamats-2 (diagnosis and treatment methods)
10 Poisoning with rodenticides-1
11 Poisoning with rodenticides -2
12 Poisoning with organochlorines
13 Poisoning with pyrethrines
14 Poisoning with herbicides
15 Final exam

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
Goldfrank LR, Flomenbaum NE, Lewin NA, Howland MA, Hoffman RS, Nelson LS,eds. Goldfrank s Toxicology Emergencies. 7th ed. USA: McGraw-Hill Companies; 2006, pp 1469-1556.
Supplementary Book(s):
POISINDEX® System: Klasco RK (Ed): POSINDEX® System. Thomson Micromedex, Greenwood Village, Colorado
2.Poisoning & Drug Overdose. Fifth Ed. New York: McGraw-Hill Companies, 2006

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

All the strategies are located Assesment methods and Total work load

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


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)

aylin.akgun@deu.edu.tr, Tel: 4123909

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 1 14
Preparation for final exam 1 3 3
Preparing presentations 1 3 3
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 50

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10
LO.15133131313
LO.25133131313
LO.35133131313
LO.41133131313
LO.51133131313