Ä°SG605 - OCCUPATIONAL CANCER
| Course Name | Code | Semester | Theory (hours/week) |
Application (hours/week) |
Credit | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OCCUPATIONAL CANCER | Ä°SG605 | Any Semester/Year | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| Prequisites | None | |||||
| Course language | Turkish | |||||
| Course type | Elective | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | Face-to-Face | |||||
| Learning and teaching strategies | Discussion Other: Reading, discussion of current articles, short presentations | |||||
| Instructor (s) | Assoc. Prof. Sibel Kiran MD. PhD., Prof Ali Naci Yıldız MD. PhD. | |||||
| Course objective | The aim of this course fort he students is to learn about occupational cancer, on etiology of occupational cancer and the relevant occupations, main characteristics of occupational cancers and preventive measures in occupational cancer . | |||||
| Learning outcomes |
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| Course Content | 1. Distrubution of cancer cases (Global and national level) 2. Etiology of occupational cancers 3. Occupational respiratory cancers 4. Occupational skin cancers 5. Other examples of occupational cancers 6. Occupational chemical factors in occupational cancers 7. Dust exposure and occupational cancers 8. Physical factors in occupational cancer 9. Epidemiology of occupational cancer 10. Preventive measures in occupational cancers and early diagnosis | |||||
| References | 1. Occupational Cancer in Developing Countries. ILO, Lyon, 1994. 2. Cancer Epidemiology, Principles and Methods, IS Silva, IARC, Lyon, 1999. 3. Occupational Health, Levy BS, Wegman DH, 4th ed, 2000. 4. ABC of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Snashall D. & Patell D. Second Edition, BMJ publishing Book 2004. 5. Textbook of ClinicalOccupational and Environmental Medicine, Rodenstock L, Cullen MR, Brodkin CA, Redlich CA, 2th ed, 2005. 6. Current Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Ladou J, Harrison R, 5th ed, Mc Graw Hill, 2007. 7. Maxcy-Rosenau-Last Public Health & Preventive Medicine, 15th ed, Wallace RB, Kohatsu N. The McGraw-Hill Companies, USA, 2008. 8. Guidotti TL. Global Occupational Health. New York, Oxford University Press, 2011. 9. Oxford Textbook of Public Health, 5th Edition. (Eds) Detels R, Beaglehole R, Lansang MA, Gulliford M. Oxford University Press. 2011. 10. İş Sağlığı ve Güvenliği, N. Bilir, AN. Yıldız, Hacettepe Üniversitesi Yayını, 2014. | |||||
Course outline weekly
| Weeks | Topics |
|---|---|
| Week 1 | Introduction, expectations, aims and objectives of the lecture |
| Week 2 | Relations of occupation and health |
| Week 3 | Occupational diseases and work-related diseases |
| Week 4 | Occupational cancers |
| Week 5 | Occupational respiratory cancers |
| Week 6 | Occupational skin cancers |
| Week 7 | Other examples of occupational cancers |
| Week 8 | Occupational chemical factors in occupational cancers |
| Week 9 | Dust exposure and occupational cancer |
| Week 10 | Physical factors in occupational cancer |
| Week 11 | Epidemiology of occupational cancer |
| Week 12 | Principles of diagnosis and treatment of occupational cancers |
| Week 13 | Preventive measures in occupational cancers |
| Week 14 | Seminar presentation |
| Week 15 | Preparatory studies for final exam |
| Week 16 | Final exam |
Assesment methods
| Course activities | Number | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Attendance | 0 | 0 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 |
| Assignments | 0 | 0 |
| Presentation | 1 | 20 |
| Project | 0 | 0 |
| Seminar | 1 | 20 |
| Midterms | 0 | 0 |
| Final exam | 1 | 60 |
| Total | 100 | |
| Percentage of semester activities contributing grade succes | 2 | 40 |
| Percentage of final exam contributing grade succes | 1 | 60 |
| Total | 100 | |
WORKLOAD AND ECTS CALCULATION
| Activities | Number | Duration (hour) | Total Work Load |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Duration (x14) | 14 | 2 | 28 |
| Laboratory | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Application | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Specific practical training | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Field activities | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Study Hours Out of Class (Preliminary work, reinforcement, ect) | 13 | 5 | 65 |
| Presentation / Seminar Preparation | 2 | 8 | 16 |
| Project | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Homework assignment | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Midterms (Study duration) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Final Exam (Study duration) | 1 | 11 | 11 |
| Total Workload | 30 | 26 | 120 |
Matrix Of The Course Learning Outcomes Versus Program Outcomes
| D.9. Key Learning Outcomes | Contrubition level* | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1. Student has current knowledge on work place and environmental factors, working conditions and principles of protection and may develop this knowledge. | X | ||||
| 2. Student understands, interprets and evaluates interdisciplinary interaction on occupational health and safety. | X | ||||
| 4. Student has knowledge on statistical methods used in investigations and investigation methods in occupational health and safety. | X | ||||
| 5. Student uses theoretical and practical information regarding occupational health and safety. | X | ||||
| 6. Student identifies the health and safety problems of workers by using the information and skills obtained in occupational safety via suitable methods and tools and accordingly produces suggestions for solutions by developing policies and strategies. | X | ||||
| 7. Student plans, and conducts investigations on occupational health and safety, analyses the data. | X | ||||
| 8. Student participates in team work in the identification and solution of problems regarding occupational health and safety and shares knowledge on the issue. | X | ||||
| 9. Student evaluates international developments in occupational health and safety in the framework of national conditions. | X | ||||
| 10. Student acts in accordance with scientific and professional ethical principles in studies on occupational health and safety and in all kinds of academic studies. | X | ||||
| 11. Student carries out investigations, presentations and publications on the issue of occupational health and safety. | X | ||||
*1 Lowest, 2 Low, 3 Average, 4 High, 5 Highest