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  Course Description
Course Name : Rights and responsibilty of radiation personnels and patients

Course Code : MEDF-550

Course Type : Optional

Level of Course : Second Cycle

Year of Study : 2

Course Semester : Spring (16 Weeks)

ECTS : 5

Name of Lecturer(s) : Prof.Dr. İSMAİL GÜNAY
Prof.Dr. ZEHRA YEĞİNGİL

Learning Outcomes of the Course : Learns legal regulations concerned with radiation
Learns patient dose management
Learns the rights and legal arrangements for patients exposed to radiation
Learns occupational radiation dose management
Learns legal regulations about rights and responsibilities of radiation personnel

Mode of Delivery : Face-to-Face

Prerequisites and Co-Prerequisites : None

Recommended Optional Programme Components : None

Aim(s) of Course : The aim of the course is to teach radiation protection and rights and legal arrangements for personnel who are exposed to radiation

Course Contents : Radiation and health physics, Design for radiation protection, Legal regulations concerned with radiation, Patient dose management, Rights and legal arrangements for patients exposed to radiation, occupational radiation dose management, Legal regulations about rights and responsibilities of radiation personnel, Design of radiologic imaging Facilities, Radiation burns and nuclear accidents, quiz, final exam, assignment.

Language of Instruction : Turkish

Work Place : Classroom


  Course Outline /Schedule (Weekly) Planned Learning Activities
Week Subject Student's Preliminary Work Learning Activities and Teaching Methods
1 Radiation and health physics Student reads related chapter from textbooks lecturing, interactive teaching, solving examples, class discussion
2 Design for radiation protection Student reads related chapter from textbooks lecturing, interactive teaching, solving examples, class discussion
3 Legal regulations concerned with radiation Student reads related chapter from textbooks lecturing, interactive teaching, solving examples, class discussion
4 Legal regulations concerned with radiation Student reads related chapter from textbooks lecturing, interactive teaching, solving examples, class discussion
5 Patient dose management Student reads related chapter from textbooks lecturing, interactive teaching, solving examples, class discussion
6 Patient dose management Student reads related chapter from textbooks lecturing, interactive teaching, solving examples, class discussion
7 Rights and legal arrangments for patients exposed to radiation Student reads related chapter from textbooks lecturing, interactive teaching, solving examples, class discussion
8 Rights and legal arrangments for patients exposed to radiation Student reads related chapter from textbooks lecturing, interactive teaching, solving examples, class discussion
9 occupational radiation dose management, Student reads related chapter from textbooks lecturing, interactive teaching, solving examples, class discussion
10 occupational radiation dose management, Student reads related chapter from textbooks lecturing, interactive teaching, solving examples, class discussion
11 Legal arrangements about rights and responsibilities of radiation personnel Student reads related chapter from textbooks lecturing, interactive teaching, solving examples, class discussion
12 Legal arrangements about rights and responsibilities of radiation personnel Student reads related chapter from textbooks lecturing, interactive teaching, solving examples, class discussion
13 Design of radiologic imaging Facilities Student reads related chapter from textbooks lecturing, interactive teaching, solving examples, class discussion
14 Design of radiologic imaging Facilities Student reads related chapter from textbooks lecturing, interactive teaching, solving examples, class discussion
15 Radiation burns and nuclear accidents Student reads related chapter from textbooks lecturing, interactive teaching, solving examples, class discussion
16/17 final exam written exam


  Required Course Resources
Resource Type Resource Name
Recommended Course Material(s)  İnternet, TAEK web
 Radiologic science for technologist, Stewart Carlyle Bushong, Elsevier, 2013
 Lecture notes
 Essentials of radiation biology and protection, Steve Forshier, Delmar Cengage learning, 2002
Required Course Material(s)


  Assessment Methods and Assessment Criteria
Semester/Year Assessments Number Contribution Percentage
    Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 60
    Homeworks/Projects/Others 4 40
Total 100
Rate of Semester/Year Assessments to Success 40
 
Final Assessments 100
Rate of Final Assessments to Success 60
Total 100

  Contribution of the Course to Key Learning Outcomes
# Key Learning Outcome Contribution*
1 Lists and describes the functions of health organizations, explains how national and international health organizations are organized, and explains how to manage clinics. 3
2 owns some of the features of the human biological sciences (anatomy, physiology, pathology, cellular and biomolecular structure, radiologic anatomy, and so on.) related to Medical Physics applications. 0
3 explains and discusses the ethical and legal issues in the field of health care profession (eg, research ethics, data protection, privacy, reputation, ethics management). 5
4 explains the neccessary technical substructure for the qualified service in the future of Medical Physics. 0
5 explains the national legislative frameworks, regulations, guidelines and codes of practice of the European Community on the subject of Medical Physics 4
6 Covering the areas of medical physics, in order to explain the structure, function, the characteristics and the limitations, he/she uses the physical concepts, principles and theories in a detailed and quantitative way and also explains the use of medical devices in the field of medical physics. 0
7 describes the properties of ionizing radiation (electromagnetic, electrons, ions, neutrons), and other physical agents (electrical energy, static electricity / magnetic fields, non-ionizing electromagnetic radiation, vibration, sound and ultrasound, laser) in a detailed and quantitavive way. 0
8 describes the useful and reverse effects of onizing radiation and different physical agents that have a link with medical devices by means of biological models in a numerical way ,and also explains the factors affecting the magnitude of the biological effect. Explains the ways of manipulation to improve clinical outcomes. 0
9 explains deterministic / stochastic, early / late, teratogenic / genetic effects related to each physical agent 0
10 In order to review something in a systematic manner in the field of Medical Physics, he/she makes up a list of related literature in the fields of the General Physics, Medical Physics and Health physics. 0
11 uses the general concepts, principles and theories of physics to sort out clinical problems of safety / risk management related to the clinical use of medical devices, and on ionization radiation. 0
12 uses the general concepts, principles and theories of physics to transfer new devices and related techniques to the clinical environment. 0
13 designs digital clinical and biomedical studies based on meticulous and rigorous statistical base. 0
14 Uses statistical packages for the analysis of clinical and biomedical data. 0
15 tells the use of dosimetries used in medical physics based on physical concepts, principles and theories. 0
16 identifies the dosimetric quantities of patients in each clinical process, and describes the methods for the measurement of these features. 0
17 describes and explains different dosimetric quantities that are used and explains the relationship between dosimetric quantities (energy flux, kerma, absorbed dose). 0
18 explains the principles of biological monitoring and dosimetry. 0
19 Understands the nature of the anatomical medical images. 0
20 During the administration of ionizing radiation to the patient, he/she determines the method and designs different applications to improve this method. 0
* Contribution levels are between 0 (not) and 5 (maximum).

  Student Workload - ECTS
Works Number Time (Hour) Total Workload (Hour)
Course Related Works
    Class Time (Exam weeks are excluded) 14 2 28
    Out of Class Study (Preliminary Work, Practice) 14 3 42
Assesment Related Works
    Homeworks, Projects, Others 4 10 40
    Mid-term Exams (Written, Oral, etc.) 1 2 2
    Final Exam 1 2 2
Total Workload: 114
Total Workload / 25 (h): 4.56
ECTS Credit: 5