COURSE UNIT TITLE

: MEDICOLEGAL PRINCIPLES IN CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TOK 6038 MEDICOLEGAL PRINCIPLES IN CLINICAL TOXICOLOGY ELECTIVE 1 0 0 5

Offered By

Toxicology

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR YEŞIM TUNÇOK

Offered to

Toxicology

Course Objective

Learning of legal liabilities of a physician and medicolegal aspects of poisonings, alcohol and substance abuse

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to describe the poisonings as forensic cases and legal liabilities of a physician
2   To be able to describe the flowchart of antemortem and postmortem sampling
3   To be able to evaluate the medicolegal aspects of alcohol ingestion
4   To be able to evaluate the medicolegal aspects of substance abuse.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Medicolegal liabilities of a physician in poisonings
2 Analytic methodology in forensic toxicology-1
3 Analytic methodology in forensic toxicology-2
4 Sampling and analysis in forensic toxicology-1
5 Sampling and analysis in forensic toxicology-2
6 Medicolegal aspects of alcohol ingestion
7 Medicolegal aspects of cannabinoid abuse
8 Medicolegal aspects of benzodiazepin abuse
9 Medicolegal aspects of solvent abuse
10 Medicolegal aspects of opioid abuse
11 Medicolegal aspects of hallucinogen abuse
12 Medicolegal aspects of cocain abuse
13 Medicolegal aspects of GHB abuse
14 Case discussion-1

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Barry Lewine. Principles of Forensic Toxicology. 3rd edition, 2010. AACC Press
1. Goldfrank LR, Flomenbaum NE, Lewin NA, Weisman RS, Howland MA, Hoffman RS, eds. Goldfrank s Toxicologic Emergencies, 9th edition, USA, The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2010.
2. Olson KR. Poisoning and Drug Overdose. 4th edition, McGrawHill, USA, 2004.
3. POISINDEX® System: Klasco RK (Ed): POSINDEX® System. Thomson Micromedex, Greenwood Village, Colorado
4. Systematic Toxicological Analysis: Laboratory Guidelines. http://www.tiaft.org/node/82
Erişim tarihi: 13.04.2102.

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 PO * 0.40 + FN*0.60
4 RST RESIT
5 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) PO * 0.40 + BUT*0.60

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Tı be succesfull in final exam and presentation

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

e-mail: yesim.tuncok@deu.edu.tr, tel: 4123903

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 14 5 70
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparing presentations 1 10 10
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 116

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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