GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
DRUG INTERACTIONS/FRL -1050
Course Title: DRUG INTERACTIONS
Credits 3 ECTS 6
Course Semester 1 Type of The Course Elective
COURSE INFORMATION
 -- (CATALOG CONTENT)
 -- (TEXTBOOK)
 -- (SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTBOOK)
 -- (PREREQUISITES AND CO-REQUISITES)
 -- LANGUAGE OF INSTRUCTION
  Turkish
 -- COURSE OBJECTIVES
 -- COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
Learning of the definition of drug interactions.
Learning of drug – pharmacokinetics interactions in ADME-1, drug- CYP450 interactions, drug- pharmacodynamics interactions (Drug condition, receptor)
Learning of interactions with an OTC drug
Learning of food-drug interactions
Learning of design of drug Interaction studies
Learning of factors increasing the clinical risk for interactions
Learning of pharmacotherapy and drug interaction
Discussing drug interactions with related examples.
 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  What is a drug interactions?
2. Week  Drug – pharmacokinetics interactions in ADME-1
3. Week  Drug – pharmacokinetics interactions in ADME-2
4. Week  Drug- CYP450 interactions
5. Week  Drug- pharmacodynamics interactions (Drug condition, receptor )-1
6. Week  Drug- pharmacodynamics interactions (Drug condition, receptor )-2
7. Week  Interactions with an OTC drug
8. Week  Food-drug interactions
9. Week  Design of Drug Interaction Studies
10. Week  Factors Increasing the clinical risk for interactions
11. Week   Pharmacotherapy and drug- interaction
12. Week  Discussing drug interactions with related examples-1
13. Week  Discussing drug interactions with related examples-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
14
3
42
 Searching in Internet and Library
14
2
28
 Material Design and Implementation
10
1
10
 Report Preparing
2
3
6
 Preparing a Presentation
2
3
6
 Presentation
1
1
1
 Midterm Exam and Preperation for Midterm Exam
2
4
8
 Final Exam and Preperation for Final Exam
2
4
8
 Other (should be emphasized)
0
 TOTAL WORKLOAD: 
151
 TOTAL WORKLOAD / 25: 
6.04
 Course Credit (ECTS): 
6
 -- 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.
4Graduates have knowledge about designing experiments and basic concepts of biostatistics in pharmacology.
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.
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. Dr. FATMA AKAR)
 -- WEB SITE(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   ( http://websitem.gazi.edu.tr/site/fakar)
 -- EMAIL(S) OF LECTURER(S)
   (fakar@gazi.edu.tr)