Introduction to Medical Terminology
About the Medical Terminology Course
Introduction to Medical Terminology introduces basic knowledge of the medical language and word structures, terms pertaining to the body as a whole, and pharmacology. Students learn to analyze medical words, identify the body cavities, explain how suffixes and prefixes affect medical terms, and classify the various routes of drug administration. This course consists of 15 days (75 hours) of daily, participative learning sessions.
Course Prerequisites
- Completion of all or most ILS courses in the Medical Office Assistant Program
- Keyboarding Level 1 (25 words per minute)
- Microsoft Word Level 2
Course Notes
Students are supplied with a textbook for ongoing reference. In addition to quizzes, a research essay, and tests, there is a final course exam. Students must achieve an overall mark of 75% to successfully complete the course.
Course Breakdown
Basic Word Structure: Word analysis and identifying combining forms, suffixes, and prefixes
Terms Pertaining to the Body as a Whole: Identifying the structural organization of the body, body cavities, body regions and quadrants, divisions of the spinal column, planes of the body, and positional and directional terms.
Suffixes: Understanding combining forms, suffixes, terminology, and appendices.
Prefixes: Understanding combining forms, prefixes, terminology, and appendices.
Pharmacology: Identifying drug names, administration of drugs, terminology of drug action, classes of drugs and drug toxicity, vocabulary, terminology, and abbreviations used in prescriptions