BIRCHAM INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY

Faculty of Natural Health Science

MODULE: Toxicology

Program delivered by distance learning higher education up to a maximum of 39 credits. This module may be combined or completed with other online university courses from this faculty.

DESCRIPTION:

This program will establish the scientific principles underlying the toxic actions of various substances and will introduce the various challenges within the field of toxicology. The chemical nature of injurious substances, their uptake and metabolism and their mode of toxic action will be studied in addition to the methods used in safety evaluations and risk assessment. The program also combines the biogeochemical cycles of toxins and their interactions with biological systems in order to improve assessment of the complex effects of toxins at the molecular, cellular, organismal, and ecosystem levels.

Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 credits):

1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credit (30 hours of study).

Toxicology

Biological Toxicology

Academic Supervisor: Luis Fontanet Sallán

More information about this supervisor and online university course instructors at BIU Human Network.

This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's and Ph.D. (Doctor) Programs. This distance learning degree program is designed at the postgraduate level – Master’s or Doctoral. This module may be easily adapted to complete the Specialist, Expert or Bachelor’s adult degree program requirements. A further option is the enrollment into the online university courses listed in this module.

* University Course (3 credits): Select 1 subject from this module.

* Specialist Diploma (15 credits): First 5 subjects or select 5 subjects from this module.

* Expert Diploma (21 credits): First 7 subjects or select 7 subjects from this module.

* Bachelor's Degree (130 credits): The Admission certificate issued after submission of the application for admission will show the amount of credit transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete this undergraduate program's major. Additional courses from other modules of this faculty will be assigned in case that the credits displayed on this module are not enough to complete the bachelor's required credits.

* Master's Degree (35 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 13 credits corresponding to a final project to the selected subjects.

* Ph.D. (Doctor) (45 credits): Select from 3 to 9 subjects from this module depending on the amount of credits transferred from previous education and experience. Add 18 credits corresponding to a final thesis to the selected subjects.

BIU issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the degree program's major. BIU can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission.

Courses Description (each subject accounts for 3 credits):

Toxicology

This course deals with the principles of how chemicals, drugs, and other products alter biological systems. Mechanisms and conditions under which harmful effects may occur are emphasized. It also considers biological and chemical factors that influence toxicity; routes of administration; experimental design; special tests; statistical analysis of data; extrapolation of animal data to man; and regulatory aspects of toxicology.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet Sallán

Biological Toxicology

This course explores the modes of action and cellular and molecular targets of toxicants, as well as mechanisms of cellular and molecular responses to toxicants and their detoxification. It shows biological methodologies and approaches to identify and study cellular targets of toxicants, and how molecular mechanisms whereby chemical, physical, and biological agents produce their harmful effects on biological tissues, organ systems and DNA.

Instructor: Jose R. Vazquez

Biochemical Toxicology

This course presents the chemical and physical processes determining distribution and fate of chemical hazards, detection of low levels of hazardous compounds, and environmental evaluation and prediction. It also presents a treatment of the biochemical and physiological mechanisms underlying toxicity and detoxication.

Instructor: Jose R. Vazquez

Hygiene & Safety

This course introduces the principles of industrial and community hygiene and safety. It examines the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of hazards to health and safety. It includes control methods, hygiene sampling equipment, and develops skills in occupational health and safety hazard recognition in a variety of cases.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet Sallán

Occupational Toxicology

This course explores occupational and industrial health hazards and toxic exposures. It examines the effects of exposure to chemical, physical, and biological agents, embracing the community and workplace environments. It considers current issues in human and environmental toxicology.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet Sallán

Toxicological Pathology

This course evaluates the pathologic responses of cells and tissues to toxic compounds with emphasis on the toxicology of mammalian body systems. It also considers the toxicology of air pollutants and the response of the respiratory system to inhaled gaseous and particulate toxicants.

Instructor: Daniel Scott Janik

Environmental Toxicology

This course presents the principles of environmental toxicology, including the major classes of toxicants, environmental movement and fate, toxicokinetics, biotransformation, toxicodynamics, factors influencing toxicity, mechanisms of toxic action and detoxication, mutagenicity and carcinogenicity, toxicity testing and evaluation, and risk assessment.

Instructor: Vicente Enrique Martín Olmos

Environmental Risks

This course examines and compares different types of environmental risks and hazards from natural disasters (tornados, earthquakes and meteorite impacts) to acute and chronic health effects caused by exposure to radiation and toxic substances. It emphasizes the principles controlling the hazardous phenomena and develops methods for making reasoned assessments of the threats impact to health and wealth.

Instructor: Vicente Enrique Martín Olmos

Aquatic Toxicology

This course examines the sources, cycling, and impacts of toxicants in aquatic systems, including acid rain, ground water, fresh water rivers and lakes, estuaries, and the ocean. It deals with processes at the air-water interface, and the properties of toxic chemicals that influence biogeochemical cycles and their toxicity to aquatic organisms and humans.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet Sallán

Pollutants & Pesticides

This course explores health risks and benefits associated with pesticide use and pollutants. It considers exposure, toxicity, epidemiology, and their regulation. It reviews important issues of environmental toxicology related to the introduction, transport, and fate of toxicants in aquatic and terrestrial environments, and the effects of toxicants across organ systems and at the ecosystem level.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet Sallán

Environmental Health

This course examines the relationship of people to their environment, how it affects their physical well-being and what they can do to influence the quality of the environment and to enhance their health. It considers environmental health control programs, agencies and regulatory process.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet Sallán

Pharmacology & Toxicology

This course helps to recognize major drug classifications and their most common applications; the rationale for pharmacological intervention for selected drugs; the use of drug information sources and patient-prescriber interaction; and the principles of toxicological adverse effects, drug interaction and drug abuse.

Instructor: Daniel Scott Janik

Toxicological Risk Assesment

This course deals with the processes and techniques for toxicological risk assessment: problem definition, dose response characterization, exposure characterization, risk assessment, and risk management decision making. Topics include identification and characterization of specific classes of toxic agents, mechanisms of action of these agents at the molecular and cellular level, and risk assessment and regulatory issues.

Instructor: Luis Fontanet Sallán

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Professionally recognized and validated degrees.

Accredited (Non USA CHEA). International legalization available.

Non formal and independent education.