GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
ADVANCED PHARMACOLOGY I/FRL-1020
Course Title: ADVANCED PHARMACOLOGY I
Credits 3 ECTS 8
Course Semester 1 Type of The Course Compulsory
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
Learning of pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics.
Learning of relationship between drug and receptor, mechanisms of drug action.
Learning of introduction to autonomic nervous system, cholinergic agents, anticholinergic agents, adrenergic agonists, adrenergic antagonists.
Learning of autonomic ganglionic blockers, autacoids.
 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  Introduction to Pharmacology
2. Week  Pharmacokinetics
3. Week  Pharmacodynamics
4. Week  Relationship between Drug and Receptor
5. Week  Mechanisms of Drug Action
6. Week  Introduction to Autonomic Nervous System
7. Week  Cholinergic agents
8. Week  Anticholinergic agents
9. Week  Adrenergic agonists
10. Week  Adrenergic antagonists
11. Week  Autonomic Ganglionic Blockers
12. Week  Autacoids-1
13. Week  Autacoids-2
14. Week  Exam
15. Week  
16. Week  
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
1
50
 Assignment
0
0
 Application
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
0
0
 Quiz
0
0
 Percent of In-term Studies  
50
 Percentage of Final Exam to Total Score  
50
 -- WORKLOAD
 Activity  Total Number of Weeks  Duration (weekly hour)  Total Period Work Load
 Weekly Theoretical Course Hours
14
3
42
 Weekly Tutorial Hours
0
 Reading Tasks
10
3
30
 Searching in Internet and Library
12
3
36
 Material Design and Implementation
0
 Report Preparing
4
3
12
 Preparing a Presentation
8
3
24
 Presentation
5
3
15
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
4
3
12
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
6
3
18
 Other (should be emphasized)
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
189
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
7.56
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
8
 -- COURSE'S CONTRIBUTION TO PROGRAM
NO
 PROGRAM LEARNING OUTCOMES
1
2
3
4
5
1Graduates implement their skills, obtained after completing master’s program in pharmacology, in all areas of pharmacology within related laws, regulations, legislation, professional core values and code of ethics.X
2Graduates have academic knowledge in pharmacologyX
3Graduates have general information about project preparation techniques, scientific presentations and writing techniques.X
4Graduates have knowledge about designing experiments and basic concepts of biostatistics in pharmacology.X
5Graduates have sufficient knowledge and skills on the subject of planing in-vivo and in vitro studies in designing animal disease models, researching pathophysiological mechanism, finding new drug targets, effects and mechanism of action of the drug candidate molecules.
6Graduates have sufficient knowledge about isolated tissue and organ assays, cell culture assays and molecular pharmacology studies.X
7Graduates have enough information about drug screening methods, obtaining patents, clinical drug research, licensing and data protection, pharmacoeconomics, drug utilization, pharmacoepidemiology, etc.X
8Graduates have enough information about drug interactions and adverse drug reactions.X
9Graduates have ability to apply at least one laboratory techniques during the period of master’s program.
10Graduates follow national and international literature and current developments.X
 -- NAME OF LECTURER(S)
   (Prof. Fatma AKAR)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/fakar)
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (fakar@gazi.edu.tr )