INTRODUCTION- Word Building
Exactly what is Medical Terminology? Most of us think of medical
terminology as big, long unpronounceable words that only doctors can
understand. Moreover, when we consider learning medical terminology, we
think we have to spend hours memorizing those long unpronounceable words and
their meanings.
What if I told you that you don’t have to spend hours memorizing
long unpronounceable words and their meanings? What if I told you that you
could learn medical terminology in 12 to 24 hours of study time? What if I
told you that you already have knowledge of many medical terms? It’s all
true!
First, most of us do know a fair majority of medical terminology without
even realizing it. We’re all familiar with words such as arthritis,
nausea, nasal, anemia, electrocardiogram, lens, kidney, Cat scan
and hepatitis. We know that these words describe a condition, a body
organ or a medical test. However, just knowing that these words are a
medical condition or test is not enough when working in the healthcare
field.
Second, medical terms are like jigsaw puzzles, but there’s no need
to stay up at night for hours, memorizing medical terms and their meanings.
With this course you’ll learn to break down the medical words using a
technique called Word Building. Word Building explains how
medical terms are built and formatted into words using a building block
method. This method will take the average person 12 to 24 hours of study
time to complete.
Lastly, Word Building will teach you how to analyze each medical
term by dividing the term into its basic component parts; the prefix,
the root word, and the suffix. Moreover, there are far
fewer
basic component word parts than there are medical terms, therefore the study
time in learning these components is minimal.
Word Building gives you the tools to understand
the meaning of each individual component, the prefix, the root
word, and the suffix, in medical terms. Once you’ve
completed this course you will be able to comprehend many medical terms not
presented in this short curriculum.
MATERIALS REQUIRED
This course does not require any additional materials. This Medical
Terminology comes complete with all necessary chapters to learn our word
building method, exercises to practice the word building techniques, and
tests to enable you to evaluate the progress you're making.
The online Learning Tools include Medical Terminology Flashcard software,
designed to work hand-in-hand with each chapter of this Medical Terminology
course. However, if you prefer to make a set of flashcards to study when not
at your computer, 3x5 index cards will be necessary.
A set of flashcards can be made, by using the instructions in the “Study
Time” section in each chapter of the course.
FLASHCARDS: 3 X 5
index cards
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