Course description

During Veterinary Pharmacology 1, students learn the basics of general pharmacology, and the theoretical and practical aspects of the usage of several drug groups (organotropic agents). Regarding practical aspects, we aim to develop students’ first day skills for successful and prudent drug use in the most common veterinary cases. We put strong emphasis on educating pharmacology based on the recommendations of the current international guidelines and scientific articles, furthermore, through this approach, we encourage students for lifelong learning and the usage of relevant scientific literature. Legal, ethical and public health aspects of veterinary drug usage are also covered by the subject. Furthermore, during practicals, students learn to write prescriptions and can study different drug administration routes and the handling of animals.

Lectures theme

TOPICS OF LECTURES – VETERINARY PHARMACOLOGY

Academic year 2021/2022, 1^st Semester

Time of Lectures:

Monday         8¹⁵ – 10⁰⁰ / 10¹⁵-12⁰⁰ Magyary-Kossa Lecture Hall

Thursday      9¹⁵ – 10⁰⁰ / 10¹⁵-11⁰⁰ Zlamál / Plósz Lecture Hall

Budapest, 06^th of September 2020

Ákos Jerzsele DVM, Ph.D

Head of Department, Associate Professor

Practical lessons theme

I^st Semester 2021/2022. Practical Topic List

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Dr. Ákos Jerzsele

head of department, associate professor

Evaluation description

I N F O R M A T I O N

VETERINARY PHARMACOLOGY in English, Fall semester, Academic year 2021/2022

Students will be hereby informed that the prevalent qualification system and requirements in subject “Veterinary Pharmacology” for the fall semester are as follows:

1. For completing the semester these are obligatory:

• Regular visiting of the lectures (taking into account the current epidemiological regulations)
• Successful performance on all practical lectures (including practical small tests and prescription tasks) (taking into account the current epidemiological regulations)
• Successful completion of the two midterm tests

The acceptance of the semester is certified by the signature of the authorized lecturer. More than five weeks of absence in a semester results in an automatic exclusion from the semester (cf. Student’s guide).

2. Practicals

Attendance on the practicals should be performed taking into account the current epidemiological regulations. The attendance on all labs, wearing a lab coat, is obligatory. The names of students will be checked by the practical leader, and in addition, students will prove their appearance with their signature. All missed practicals have to be retaken (at the end of the semester). Students have to be able to answer questions about the topic of former and actual practicals satisfactory either verbal or written (several small tests will be written during the practicals and a prescription task will be given to the students). Date of these is included in the semester’s schedule. For acceptance, the average of small test and prescription task results should be at least satisfactory (>60%) and it will be used for the calculation of the final practical grade (see point 4. below). Retake of failed small tests and prescriptions is not possible.

3. Midterm tests

Schedule of the two midterm tests is given in the detailed Practical Topic List. Minimum acceptance level of completion is 60.5% of the maximal scores. Failed or missed midterm tests can be retaken during the semester only once. If the student cannot attend the retake midterm, it will be accepted as a failed test. Those students who aim to improve their result can also take the retake midterms, but in this case, the second result will count in the final grade, even if it’s worse than the original one.

The final grades will be based on the results of two midterm tests and the practicals’ average[1]. If any of the three grades is unsatisfactory, the semester will not be accepted. In this case the student should have an examination about the topics of the whole semester at the end of the semester. Without this successful retake exam, the acceptance of the semester will not be certified by the signature of the head of department.

At the end of fall semester, students will be evaluated by marks as follows:

excellent (5) – ≥ 90%

good (4)      – ≥ 80%

medium (3) – ≥ 70%

satisfactory (2) – > 60%

unsatisfactory (1)   – ≤ 60%

Budapest, 24^th August 2021

Dr. Ákos Jerzsele

Head of department

[1] Average of the small test and prescription task results will give 1/3 of the final grade. The two midterm results will provide other 2/3 for the calculation. Finally, average of these three scores will be calculated and used for the evaluation.