COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PLANT AND FOOD POISONINGS

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TOK 6046 PLANT AND FOOD POISONINGS ELECTIVE 1 0 0 5

Offered By

Toxicology

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR NIL HOCAOĞLU AKSAY

Offered to

Toxicology

Course Objective

To learn toxic mechanisms of plants and foods, to classificate the toxic plant and food types and to have knowledge about general specialities of plant and food toxins, to determine the toxic potantials of plants and foods, to learn the toxic effects plants and foods, to learn diagnosis of plant and food poisonings, and to convey information about plant and food poisonings.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To define the plant and food poisonings
2   To compare the types of plant and food poisonings
3   To learn the treatment principles of plant and food poisonings
4   To make risk assesment in plant and food poisonings
5   To have knowledge about plant and food poisonings and to know importence of toxic effects

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Basic principals of plant poisonings
2 Poisoning with household plants
3 Poisoning with anticholinergic plants
4 Poisoning with central nervous system effected plants (nicotinic, hallusinogenic, epilepthogenic)
5 Poisoning with cardiotoxic plants
6 Poisoning with other system effected plants (hematopoietic, hepatotoxic, nephrotoxic, gastrointestinal toxic plants)
7 Basic principals of herbal product poisonings
8 Poisoning with slimming products and OTC
9 Poisoning with mushrooms
10 Interactions between herbal products and plants and foods (Case interpretation)
11 Plant-herbal product using during pregnancy (Case interpretation)
12 Basic principals of food poisonings
13 Botulismus and other microbial food posionings
14 Poisoning with seafoods

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
1. Ford M.D., Delaney K.A., Ling L.J., Erickson T. Toxins in Depth. In: Ford M.D. editor. Clinical Toxicology. 1. edition, Pennyylvania: W.B. Saunders Company; 2001. pp. 265-602.
Supplementary Book(s):
1. Bitkilerle Zehirlenmeler. T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı Birinci Basamağa Yönelik Zehirlenmeler Tanı ve Tedavi Rehberleri. Ed. Yeşim Tunçok, Nuri Kalyoncu. Yücel Ofset Matbaacılık, 2007:171-180.
2. POISINDEX® System: Klasco RK (Ed): POSINDEX® System. Thomson Micromedex, Greenwood Village, Colorado
3. DRUGDEX® System: Klasco RK (Ed): DRUGDEX® System. Thomson Micromedex, Greenwood Village, Colorado
4. Matthew J. Ellenhorn. The Home. Içinde: Ellenhorn M.J. editör. Ellenhorn s Medical Toxicology Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Poisoning. 2. baskı. National Publishing; 1997. s. 1036-1078.
5.Matthew J. Ellenhorn. Natural Toxins. Içinde: Ellenhorn M.J. editör. Ellenhorn s Medical Toxicology Diagnosis and Treatment of Human Poisoning. 2. baskı. National Publishing; 1997. s. 1832-1897.

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

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)

Associate Prof Nil Hocaoğlu Aksay
e-mail: nil.hocaoglu@deu.edu.tr
Tel: 4123908

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 6 84
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing presentations 1 6 6
Final 1 11 11
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 125

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.152253514325213
LO.243453525225313
LO.344453515325213
LO.453353525325213
LO.553353514325113