Medical Terminology Course

Medical terms are often complicated and can be confusing. This course helps in preparing participants to increase familiarity with medical terminology. It also provides the opportunity to learn basic rules for analyzing unknown words and to gain familiarity with classic word roots. Additionally, this course reviews basic anatomy, grammar, and medical procedures. Essentially, the course will focus on the component parts of medical terms: prefixes, suffixes, and word roots. Nurses practice formation, analysis and reconstruction of terms. There is a major emphasis on spelling, definition, and pronunciation as well as an introduction to operative, diagnostic, therapeutic and symptomatic terminology of all body systems. This will also be inclusive of systemic and surgical terminologies