Химия и химические технологии / 2. Теоретическая химия

Panasenko A. I., Keytlin I. M., Safonov A. A., Gotsulya A. S., Buryak V. P., Kremzer A. A., Melnik I. V.

Zaporozhye State Medical University

 

AN APPLICATION OF BUSINESS GAMES IN THE STUDY  OF TOXICOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

 

         People born talented, and all caring of the teaching staff of high educational institutions is not to ruin the talent and lead the student into the world of creativity, providing it with the necessary knowledge. Among the many ways of parenting interest in learning one of the most effective is the organization of gaming activities.

         Business game began as a search tool of management decisions under uncertainty and comprehensiveness. Currently, they are used in the educational process, as a pedagogical technique, or as a method of active learning in the study of a particular discipline. In all cases, it not only solves gaming or professional tasks, but at the same time are  held training and education of the students. [5]

         The game is an effective method of learning, because it eliminates the contradiction between the abstract nature of the subject and the real nature of the professional  activity.

Business game is considered as the limited in the space and time an activity of students to create a new attitude to the subject matter. Business game is a psychological and didactic system, based on the following principles, which provide the optimal interaction between the participants of the game: cooperation, feasibility, management of emotional and intellectual background of the educational process of academic groups, matching assessments, permanent control of the business game, certainly [2].

Depending on the modifications of the business game can be introduced the different types of the role positions of participants: a generator of the ideas,  developer, simulator, scholar, analyst, organizer, coordinator, integrator, methodologist,  critic [3].

Psychological and pedagogical principles of the business game  in the study of toxicological chemistry include [12]: the principle of simulation of specific methods of analysis (chemical, physic-chemical and instrumental) and the principle of dialogic  communication.

         The use of business games in the educational process contributes to [4]: the formation of cognitive and professional motives and interests, the education systems of students thinking, the learning by the collective mental work during the laboratory and practical training,  training  a responsible attitude to business.

         Business games are the pedagogical tool and active form of learning that identifies scientific and educational activities, modeling pedagogical situations, and enables them to analyze and to develop the  optimal actions in forensic chemical analysis.

         Business game - is a means of professional development of creative thinking, when a student acquires the ability to analyze the specific situations and solve  the new professional problems for themselve.

         Any game should help to solve the basic learning task – the consolidation of knowledge, the best mastering skills of the laboratory employment. Only in this case the game is called as a teaching element classes. First, the students' attention is directed to gaming activities, and then during the game, they are included in the learning process of one sections of forensic chemical analysis.

         Teaching science makes to the organization of business games the following requirements [1]:

1. The game should be based on free creativity and independence of students.

2. The game should always be an element of competition between students. It greatly increases the self-control of the students, teaches a clear adherence to established rules, strengthens activities.

3. The game should evoke the positive emotions, a satisfaction on the successful solution of the objective to be achievable, and the game should be accessible and attractive.

Game forms of laboratory employment as a cause of credits are more interested at the students in their future profession:

- every student needs to know for what  he learns;

- the study should be interesting and enjoyable;

- the study should be accompanied by positive emotions, joy and knowledge to achieve the desired.

         The proposed development of the business game on the course of toxicological chemistry is a modeling activity of the chemists-toxicologists and associated with the development of methods of analysis binary mixtures of drugs, prolonged use of which at high doses contributes to the manifestation of side effects and in some cases causing death.

The teacher assigns the roles and organizes the work of the academic group. Students are divided into four groups. The first group studies by Internet a scientific literature on methods of analysis midokalm and sirdalud (muscle relaxants). The second group chooses the methods of analysis of these drugs, which are used in forensic chemical analysis. The third group is developing a method for the analysis of muscle relaxants in their joint using without prior separation of the components based on their physic-chemical properties. The fourth group tested in the laboratory technique, that provides a third group.

Mydocalm (2-methyl-1- (4-methylphenyl) -3- (piperidino) -1-propanone) in the practice of forensic chemical analysis quantified in biological liquids using gas chromatography with mass detection [6], UV spectrophotometry [8] HPLC [7.11] electronic  spectroscopy in the visible part of the spectrum [9].

According to the scientific literature Sirdalud (5-chloro-4- (2-imidazolin-2-yl-amino) -2,1,3-benzothiadiazole) in the practice of forensic chemical analysis is quantified  by UV spectrophotometry and gas chromatography [10] .

Based on these data and taking into account the physic-chemical properties and spectral characteristics for quantifying midokalm in the mixture with sirdalud the method gas-liquid chromatography is recommended. Midokalm determination was carried out using instrument Agilent 1100 series, equipped with diode array and mass selective detector "Agilent LC / MSD SL".

The analysis parameters: column "Zorbax SB-C18" - 1,8 µm, 4.6 mm x 15 mm. Solvents: A - acetonitrile - water (95: 5) 0.05% methane acid in - water (0.05% methane acid), eluent flow - 3 ml / min. Gradient: 0 seconds - 0% A, 0.01 minutes - 0% A, 0.5 min - 100% A, 0.95 minutes - 100% A, 0.96 minutes - 0% A. The sample volume is injected - 1 µl. Ionization method is the chemical ionization at the normal pressure (APCI). Ionization mode - simultaneous scanning of positive and negative ions in the mass range 80-100 m / Z....

Quantification of sirdalud performed by spectrophotometric method in the UV range, using solvent - 95% ethyl alcohol. The changes in the absorbance of solutions analyzed performed at 321 nm using an instrument SPECORD 200-222 U 214 in quartz cuvettes with a layer thickness of 10 mm. As the comparison solution, was used Sirdalud - standard at the concentration  of 1 mg%.

Statistical analysis of the obtained results indicates that the recommended methods meet the requirements of forensic chemical analysis.

 

Conclusion

This article analyzes the experience of implementation in the educational process in the study of toxicological chemistry one of the methods of active learning - business games. The need to intensify the pharmaceutical education is associated primarily with the rapid increase of the volume necessary information for the students with the lack of time. Analysis of the results showed that business games significantly increase the level of students' knowledge and contribute to the concept "I am - a specialist."

 

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