University of Veterinary Medicine Budapest

Course description

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

Toxicology is a one-semester subject.

Lectures are presented every week.

Completion of the semester requires:

– Regular visiting of the lectures (only 3 lecture hours can be missed without justification)

– Having professor’s signature in black book.

Examination:

The examination is written test.

Topics of the examination are handouts, notes, other files available on the home page.

Preconditions for signing up to the test are:

– completing of semester (see above)

– prestudying and successful examination on veterinary pharmacology.

Time for examination: 6 different time points evenly ranked during the examination period (these will be conciliated with student’s representative). (Only 30 students can do the test at the same time.)

According to the score of test students will be evaluated by marks as follows:

excellent (5)

good (4)

medium (3)

satisfactory (2)

unsatisfactory (1)

Postponing of examination is allowed only once. More postponing is considered as repeated examination. Each student is allowed to have maximum three examinations per semester.

Preferred literature:

Lecture notes

Roder, J.D.: Veterinary toxicology. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001.
The Merck Veterinary Manual (10^th edition)

Timbrel, J.A.: Principles of biochemical toxicology. Taylor and Francis, London, 1994.
Osweiler, G.D.: Toxicology, Williams and Wilkins, London, 1996.
Gfeller, W.-Messioner, S.P.: Handbook of small animal toxicology and poisonings. Mosby, London, 1998.
Plumlee, K.H.: Clinical veterinary toxicology. Mosby, St. Louis, 2003.
Gupta, R.C.: Veterinary toxicology, basic and clinical principles. Elsevier, Oxford, 2007.
Fowler, M.E.: Veterinary zootoxicology. CRC Press, Boca Raton, 1993. Budapest, 1^st September 2009.

Budapest, 02. 09. 2019.

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Dr. Ákos Jerzsele

head of department, associate professor

Lectures theme