COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PHARMACOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FTR 3060 PHARMACOLOGY COMPULSORY 1 0 0 1

Offered By

Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR NURSEN ILÇIN

Offered to

Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation

Course Objective

This course aims for physiotherapists to gain general knowledge about medications that used during their occupational applications, and to gain minimum knowledge about properties of medications used for systematic diseases.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To define the medicines
2   To compare the medicine types by each other
3   To learn the effect mechanism of medicines
4   To evaluate the adverse effects of medicines
5   Learns drugs which have significant effects on pain, inflammation, rheumatoid arthritis and gout disease

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 General Pharmacology-1 General principles of pharmacology Sources of medicines Medicine development steps
2 General Pharmacology-2 Routes of medicine administration
3 General Pharmacology-3 Pharmacokinetic principles - I
4 General Pharmacology-4 Pharmacokinetic principles - II
5 General Pharmacology-5 Pharmacodynamic principles
6 General Pharmacology-6 Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic interactions between medicines
7 General Pharmacology-7 Adverse and toxic effects of medicines
8 General Pharmacology-8 Special aspects of geriatric pharmacology
9 Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs
10 Skeletal muscle relaxants
11 Corticosteroids-1
12 Corticosteroids-2
13 Osteoporosis medicines
14 Gout medicines

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Dökmeci I. Sağlık Yüksekokulları için Farmakoloji. Nobel Tıp Kitabevi Yayını, 2010.
2. Oğuz Kayaalp. "Akılcı Tedavi Yönünden Tıbbi Farmakoloji" 13. Baskı, Güneş Tıp Kitabevleri; 2012.
3. Altan M. Katzung Farmakoloji, Güneş Tıp Yayınevi, Istanbul, 2010.
4. Kara H. Sağlık Yüksekokulları için Farmakoloji, Göktuğ Yayınları, Fırat Üniversitesi Elazığ Sağlık Yüksekokulu, 2009.
5. Bertman G. Katzung. Basic & Clinical Pharmacology 9. Edition, LANGE Basic Science; 2003.
6. DRUGDEX® System: Klasco RK (Ed): DRUGDEX® System. Thomson Micromedex, Greenwood Village, Colorado
7. Rx MediaPharma® Interaktif Ilaç Bilgi Kaynağı: Ustunes L (Ed): RxMediaPharma® GEMAŞ Genel Mühendislik Mekanik Sanayi ve Tic. A.Ş. Izmir, Türkiye.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecture

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

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Nil Hocaoğlu Aksay, Assoc. Prof. Dokuz Eylul University School of Medicine Department of Pharmacology -Izmir Tel: 4123908

Office Hours

Saturday (15:30-16:30)

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 15 1 15
Preparation for midterm exam 1 3 3
Preparation for final exam 1 3 3
Final 1 2 2
Midterm 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 25

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51

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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