COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PESTICIDE TOXICOLOGY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TOK 6058 PESTICIDE TOXICOLOGY ELECTIVE 1 0 0 3

Offered By

Toxicology

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR 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. To have ability to give consultation about biologic monitoring of pesticides. To have knowledge about legal rules of pesticides poisonings.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Classification of pesticides
2   To learn toxic effect mechanisms of pesticides
3   To comment of the health effects of pesticides
4   To comment of the biological monitoring results of pesticides
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

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 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)

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 15 2 30
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 15 2 30
Preparation for final exam 1 16 16
Preparing presentations 1 8 8
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 86

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14
LO.151153151121133
LO.211153151121133
LO.331153151121133
LO.431553151121133
LO.511153151121133