Department of Biochemistry and Medical Chemistry · Subjects · General Chemistry

Data

Official data in SubjectManager for the following academic year: 2019-2020

Course director

Dr. Zoltán BERENTE

associate professor,
Department of Biochemistry and Medical Chemistry
zoltan.berente@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

Prerequisites:

Course headcount limitations

min. 1 – max. 300

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 is aimed to provide an additional opportunity to practice and discuss the basic concepts of chemistry. Furthermore, we would like to help to develop the chemical calculation as well as the formula writing and structure drawing skills that will help a lot in their later studies and to some extent in the medical practice also.
The course is especially useful to students who have arrived to the university with less solid chemistry knowledge.

Lectures

Practices

Seminars

1. Atomic Theory and Periodic Table
2. Importance of inert gas electron configuration, the chemical bond
3. The mol, molar mass of compounds calculation of molar mass
4. The chemical reaction, type of chemical reactions
5. Writing and balancing chemical equations,
6. Understanding and balancing oxidation-reduction equations
7. Writing and balancing oxidation-reduction equations
8. Concentration calculations 1
9. Concentration calculations 2
10. Concentration calculations 3
11. Concentration calculations 4
12. Gas laws, partial pressures
13. Calculations with gas laws
14. Calculations with gas laws
15. Chemical equilibrium, effect of concentration on equilibrium
16. pH calculations 1
17. Dissociation, ionization constants
18. pH calculations 2
19. Basics of Thermochemistry
20. pH calculations 3
21. Definition and classification of organic compounds
22. Buffer pH calculations
23. Molecular structure and physical properties of organic compounds
24. Reactions in organic chemistry 1
25. Reactions in organic chemistry 2
26. Reactions in organic chemistry 3
27. Repetition, summing up
28. Repetition, summing up

Reading material

Obligatory literature

McMurry, Fay: Chemistry
P. Gergely: Organic and Bioorganic Chemistry for Medical Students

Literature developed by the Department

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

Notes

Recommended literature

Conditions for acceptance of the semester

A startout survey test can be written during the first week. Students achieving more than 50% in the startout survey can get an exemption from attending the course.
Otherwise three absences are allowed.
Accomplishment of the course is a prerequisite of registration for "Medical Chemistry" exam.

Mid-term exams

Seminars in weeks 3-14 start with a short Skills Assessment Test (SAT). During the semester students must submit at least three successful SAT's in each of the required calculation and formula writing/drawing skills.
Make-up opportunities will be provided in accordance with the Code of Studies and Examinations, during the exam period.

Making up for missed classes

None.

Exam topics/questions