Department of Biochemistry and Medical Chemistry · Subjects · General Chemistry

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2026-2027

Course director

Takátsy Anikó

associate professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Medical Chemistry
aniko.takatsy@aok.pte.hu

Number of hours/semester

lectures: 0 hours

practices: 0 hours

seminars: 28 hours

total of: 28 hours

Subject data

Code of subject: OAR-OKA-T
0 kredit
General Medicine
Criterion requirement modul
autumn semester

Prerequisites:

Course headcount limitations

min. 1 – max. 999

Topic

The goal of the course is to get students more familiar with "chemistry as a foreign language". In addition to the seminars of the main course "Medical Chemistry", this course aims to provide an additional opportunity to practice and discuss basic chemistry concepts. Furthermore, we would like to help develop the chemical calculation, formula writing, and structure drawing skills that will be very helpful in their later studies and, to some extent, in medical practice as well.

The course is especially useful to students who have arrived at the university with less solid chemistry knowledge.

Lectures

Practices

Seminars

1. Introduction
2. Atoms, molecules, elements, compounds
3. Chemical formulas, chemical equations
4. Oxidation states, redox reactions
5. Conentration calculations 1
6. Conentration calculations 2
7. Conentration calculations 3
8. Conentration calculations 4
9. Osmosis, osmotic pressure
10. Osmolarity and tonicity
11. The chemical equilibrium
12. Tha mass action law, dissociation equilibria
13. Le Chatelier's principle
14. Acid-base equilibria
15. Heterogeneous equilibria
16. pH calculations 1
17. pH calculations 2
18. Buffer solutions
19. pH of buffer solutions
20. pH of buffer solutions
21. Organic chemistry 1
22. Organic chemistry 2
23. Isomerism in organic chemistry 1
24. Isomerism in organic chemistry 2
25. Functional groups in organic chemistry 1
26. Functional groups in organic chemistry 2
27. Consultation
28. Consultation

Reading material

Obligatory literature

McMurry, Fay: Chemistry

P. Gergely: Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry for Medical Students

Literature developed by the Department

Teams and Moodle: OAA-ORK-T-2026271-MEA-AORK-E

http://aok.pte.hu/en/egyseg/oktatasianyagok/20

Notes

Recommended literature

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

The required tests must be accomplished in each of the four skills.

Mid-term exams

During the semester, students must prove the possession of four skills:

1) Establishing, naming, and writing chemical formulas

2) Simple concentration calculations (consisting of one calculation step)

3) Drawing conclusions based on chemical equilibrium, Le Chatelier. During the semester, students are required to demonstrate proficiency in four key skills:

1) Establishing, naming, and writing chemical formulas.

2) Performing simple concentration calculations that involve only one calculation step.

3) Drawing conclusions based on chemical equilibrium, Le Chatelier's principle, and basic reaction kinetics.

4) Conducting pH calculations, as well as qualitative and quantitative analyses of the buffer effect.ier's principle and elementary reaction kinetics

4) pH calculations, qualitative and quantitative applications of the buffer effect

Making up for missed classes

None.

Exam topics/questions