Course

VET358 Pharmacology and Toxicology

Credits (ECTS):10.5

Course responsible:Janicke Nordgreen

Campus / Online:Taught campus Ås

Teaching language:Norsk

Course frequency:Yearly

Nominal workload:The students are expected to work between 37.5 hours and 45 hours per week.

Teaching and exam period:Spring

About this course

In pharmacology and toxicology we build on knowledge from physiology and biochemistry to teach about drugs and toxins. The course includes lectures and groupwork.

Learning outcome

Veterinary pharmacology and toxicology includes basic pharmacologic principles relevant for all categories of drugs as well as teaching about specific groups of drugssuch as antimicrobials antiparasitic drugs, anti-inflammatory drugs etc. In veterinary toxicology we introduce basic toxicologic principles and go through some commonly seen intoxications and how to treat them. The students must also know different preparations, routes of administration, the correct handling of drugs and the legislation guiding the correct use of drugs to non-human animals.

In environmental toxicology we use toxicological principles to look closer at how environmental toxins can spread through the food chain. We also touch upon risk assessment.

EAEVE D1C

1.1-1.5

1.10-1.12

1.19

1.26-1.28

1.30-1.33

1.36, 1.37

  • Learning activities
    Lectures, collocviums and groupwork.
  • Assessment method
    This course is evaluated by an oral exam. The oral exam is graded in the A-F scale. The oral exam covers pharmacology and toxicology.

  • Examiner scheme
    Three external sensors take part in the evaluation at the oral exam.
  • Mandatory activity
    Kollokviums. All undocumented (by means of a GP-report to the administration) absence must be redone by the student giving and oral presentation of questions related to the subject they missed. The presentation must be given by physical attendance for the teachers, and is open for the rest of the class. The students who have to give such a presentation must also be audience for other students in the same situation.