If you do well in this course, you will be able to:
- Analyze medical terms by their word elements, e.g., prefixes, suffixes, roots.
- Translate medical abbreviations.
- Use a medical dictionary correctly.
- Correctly spell and pronounce medical terms.
- Read and interpret clinical information from patient care settings.
- Name the body systems and identify their basic components and functions.
- Recognize basic medical terms.
- Determine the specialty of care by identifying the meaning of the word root.
- Analyze and be familiar with terms related to tissues and organs.
- Define word root, prefix, and suffix and know how and where to use them.
- Learn and understand medical terms by breaking them down into their component parts and learning the
leaning of the parts.
- Learn to construct medical terms from component parts.
- Pronounce, spell, and define commonly used prefixes and suffixes.
- Recognize anatomic position and identify bodily directions.
- Recognize and define terms related to the abdominal cavity and peritoneum.
- Become familiar with planes of the body.
- Recognize divisions and regions of the abdomen, thorax and peritoneum.
- Describe a location on the body based on descriptive orientation terms.
- Recognize the terms related to the structure, function, procedure and pathology of cells, tissues, and
glands.
- Recognize different medical specialties and medical specialists.
- Identify major organ structures by recognizing the combining form.
- Define common pathological conditions of each body system.
- Recognize basic diagnostic tests for each system.
- Identify and understand various instruments utilized in a physical examination as they relate to specific
body parts.