GAZI UNIVERSITY INFORMATION PACKAGE - 2019 ACADEMIC YEAR

COURSE DESCRIPTION
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND STATISTICAL FUNDAMENTALS IN PHARMACOLOGY I/FRL-1030
Course Title: EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND STATISTICAL FUNDAMENTALS IN PHARMACOLOGY I
Credits 3 ECTS 8
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
Learns experimental design methods.
Learns basic concepts, sample distribution and measurements and theoretical distributions.
Learns hypothesis tests, parametric tests, non-parametric tests.
Applies hypothesis tests, parametric tests, non-parametric tests.
 -- MODE OF DELIVERY
  The mode of delivery of this course is Face to face
 --WEEKLY SCHEDULE
1. Week  Study designs in medical research
2. Week  Basic subjects-1
3. Week  Basic subjects-2
4. Week  Sample distirbution and measurement-1
5. Week  Sample distirbution and measurement-2
6. Week  Theoric distirbution -1
7. Week  Theoric distirbution -2
8. Week  Hypothesis tests-1
9. Week  Hypothesis tests -2
10. Week  Parametric tests-1
11. Week  Parametric tests-2
12. Week  Nonparametric tests-1
13. Week  Nonparametric tests-2
14. Week  Evaluation of homework and exam
15. Week  
16. Week  
 -- TEACHING and LEARNING METHODS
 -- ASSESSMENT CRITERIA
 
Quantity
Total Weighting (%)
 Midterm Exams
0
0
 Assignment
1
25
 Application
0
0
 Projects
0
0
 Practice
1
15
 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.X
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.
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)