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Veterinary Forensic Medicine

Course Code	: VET509
Course Type	: Required
Couse Group	: First Cycle (Bachelor's Degree)
Education Language	: Turkish
Work Placement	: N/A

Theory	: 1
Prt.	: 0
Credit	: 1
Lab	: 0
ECTS	: 1

Objectives of the Course

a- To teach the way of acqusiting occupational knowledge for highlighting the forensic problems regarding veterinary surgeon b- To teach the necessity of how to approach a forensic case

Course Content

This course covers the fundamental principles of veterinary forensic medicine, the roles and responsibilities of veterinary expert witnesses, forensic case assessment, and preparation of expert reports. It also addresses the forensic examination of live and deceased animals, professional negligence and liability, determination of the cause and time of death, traumatic deaths, asphyxia, poisoning, and legal aspects of notifiable diseases and quarantine measures.

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Learning Outcomes

1.	To be able to acquire professional ethical values
2.	To be able to define tasks and responsibilities of expert veterinarian.
3.	To be able to acquire forensic report writing
4.	To be able to describe and determine the cause of death of animals as a veterinary expert
5.	Gains the ability to evaluate the obligatory diseases.

Recommended or Required Reading

1.	Şentürk, S. (2007) Veteriner Adli Tıp ve İlgili Yönetmelikler, Ekin Kitabevi, Bursa.
2.	R.W. Nelson, Couto, C.G. (2003) Small Animal Internal Medicine, Mosby, Missouri.
3.	O.M. Radostits, C.C. Gay, D.C. Blood, K.W. Hinchliff; Veterinary Medicine. A Textbook of The Diseases of Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Goats And Horses. 7th Ed. London, W.B. Saunders, 2004
4.	Radostits, C.C. Gay, D.C. Blood, Hinchliff, K.W. (2004) Veterinary Medicine. A Textbook of the Diseases of Cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Goats And Horses, W.B. Saunders, London.
5.	B. P. Smith.; Edit. George L.W., Toronto, C.V; Large Animal Internal Medicine. Mosby Company, 2002
6.	S.Y. Özden,;Adli Tıp., Nobel Kitabevi, İstanbul, 1993

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week 1 - Theoretical

General introduction, forensic veterinarian and knowledge about the person's type definition, the tasks of veterinary experts

Week 2 - Theoretical

Examination of live animals (disease condition, behavioural disturbances, age determination, working performance and hygiene evaluation) Events caused by animals, killed, killed and cut examination of the animals, inanimate substances (bad food, drugs, animal products) examination of the

Week 3 - Theoretical

Veterinary report preperation, report writing techniques, cautions for preparing veterinary forensic reports

Week 4 - Theoretical

Veterinary forensic legal terms (shame, bail period, determined action)

Week 5 - Theoretical

Veterinarians to investigate negligence, prescription errors, faults in doses, drug applications errors,

Week 6 - Theoretical

Writing and application of the drug taken into consideration depending on animal species, bugs, animal health drugs is prohibited in the implementation, use of drugs pregnancy damage

Week 7 - Theoretical

Topic repetition (Mid-term exam)

Week 8 - Intermediate Exam

To investigate the cause of death, death in terms of veterinary forensic information (blood clotting, death, hardness, coldness of death, death to bad, death spots, the determination of death time)

Week 9 - Theoretical

Related deaths in terms of veterinary forensic asphexia approach (rope-like or actual identification of the animal's drowned, I can drown in water, determining whether the animal's life after death when thrown into the water that distinction)

Week 10 - Theoretical

Approach in terms of forensic veterinarian with sudden death, deaths from firearms occurred with an electric shock as a result of death, cutting tools consisting of death, death due to drowning

Week 11 - Theoretical

Some important approach in terms of forensic veterinary poisoning (DDT poisoning, poisoning with organofosforlu compounds, karbamat insektisitlerle poisoning, arsenic poisoning, lead and mercury poisoning)

Week 12 - Theoretical

Chemical approach in terms of forensic veterinary asfeksiye related deaths (acute carbon monoxide poisoning, cyanide poisoning, hydrogen sulfide poisoning), anaphylactic deaths

Week 13 - Theoretical

Some significant poisoning veterinary forensic physicians (sitriknin poisoning, amitraz poisoning, metilaldehid poisoning, ethylene glycol (antifreeze) poisoning, aspirin poisoning, poisoning rodentisid)

Week 14 - Theoretical

Notifiable diseases, disease control and quarantine

Assessment Methods and Criteria

Type of Assessment	Count	Percent
Attending Lectures	1	%5
Assignment	1	%5
Midterm Examination	1	%30
Final Examination	1	%60

Workload Calculation

Activities	Count	Preparation	Time	Total Work Load (hours)
Lecture - Theory	14	0	1	14
Assignment	1	1	2	3
Quiz	1	1	2	3
Midterm Examination	1	3	1	4
Final Examination	1	5	1	6
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours)				30

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