COURSE UNIT TITLE

: BASIC HELMINTHOLOGY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PAR 5011 BASIC HELMINTHOLOGY COMPULSORY 2 2 0 8

Offered By

Medical Parasitology

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR ÜMIT AKSOY

Offered to

Medical Parasitology

Course Objective

General properties in helmints, morphological structure, associate with disease, diagnosis,prevention to them and also more important helminth disesae in Turkey.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Define major properties of helminths and classify them
2   Define major properties of nematodes
3   Outline nematodes living in different body parts and associate with diseases
4   Define major properties of cestodes
5   Outline cestodes living in different body parts and associate with diseases
6   Define major properties of trematodes
7   Outline trematodes living in different body parts and associate with diseases

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Major properties of helminths, classifIcation and diagnosis them
2 Major properties of nematods and intestinal nematods 1 (A. lumbricoides and E. vermicularis)
3 Intestinal nematods 2 (Strongyloides and Tricostrongiloides)
4 Intestinal nematods 3 (Hookworms and T. trichiura)
5 Blood and tissue nematods 1 (Visceral and cutaneous larva migrans)
6 Blood and tissue nematods 2( Trichinella species)
7 Blood and tissue nematods 3 ( W. bancrofti, B. malayi Oncocerca volvulus, Loa loa,)
8 Major properties of cestods, their larvae and intestinal cestods 1 (Taenia spp)
9 Intestinal cestods 2 (H. nana ve D. latum)
10 Liver cestods (Echinococcus species)
11 Major properties of trematods and lung trematods
12 Intestinal trematods ( F. buski, H. heterophyes ve E. ilocanum)
13 Liver trematods (Fasciola hepatica ve D. dendriticum)
14 Blood trematods (Schistosoma species)

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s):
Ozcel s Medical Parasite Disease Ed. M. Ali Özcel, 2007

Supplementary Book(s):
1. Diagnostic Medical Parasitology, Ed. Lynne Shore Garcia, 2007
2. Unat's Medical Parasitology; Ekrem Kadri Unat, Cerrahpaşa, 1995
3. Treatment in Medical Parasitology Ed. Ç. Akısü, M. Korkmaz, 2005
4. Markell And Voge's Medical Parasitology, Ed. William A. Petri, David T. John, 2006
5. Atlas of Human Parasitology, Ed. Lawrence R, 2007


References:
Materials: It will be used helmint preparats in application

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Theoretical lessons and tasks

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + FIN* 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.20 + RST* 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Mid-term and final term exam will be in classical format and evaluated to 100 points

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

0 232 412 45 43

Office Hours

Thursday, 09:30-10:30

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Tutorials 14 2 28
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparation for final exam 1 20 20
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 3 42
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 1 15 15
Reading 19 2 38
Preparation for midterm exam 1 10 10
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 200

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12
LO.154
LO.255
LO.3554444
LO.455
LO.5554444
LO.655
LO.7554444

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