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MEDICAL TERMINOLOGYSemester 1 2011
AIMS To give you some important medical terms
for the study of medicine, nursing and pharmacy.
To teach you skills how to analyse a medical word to find the meaning
To understand a good number of word parts(root suffix, prefix) that make up the medical words
To give an overview of the Organisation of the Body in the English Language.
Aims
To study in more detail 2 systems of the body in English
To give you examples of word parts used for the future study for your major
To give you some medical words used in the hospital and ways to analyse and memorise them
Course content Chapter 1 Basic medical word structure
Chapter 1 Word analysis-look at the medical word. Divide it into parts analyse the word and find the meaning
The project- self-study project relating to a system of the body.
Chapter 2 —The Organisation of the Body. Body Systems Appendix 1 The
Digestive and cardiovascular System
Course assessment Continuous Assessment 20%-One
homework assignment weekly and 2 or 3 of these will be marked. A lot of marks are lost for disruption in class and poor attendance.
Two monthly exams 30%- one before the mid term and one after the midterm.
Mid-term 1 exam 15% Midterm 2 is a poster assessment 15% Final Exam 20%
Course text book
Chabner Davi-Ellen (2009) Medical Terminology A short course
Available at Jarir Bookstore
15% discount on the book if you give the name and code Mr Allan Depp Head of English department code 1243019
Class Managers
3 class managers per group Can communicate quite well in
English Can give phone number, email
address Is responsible [email protected]
What is Medical Terminology? Medical workers use this language to
describe objects, situations and to communicate to each other in their area of medicine.
The words -or terms – that make up the language of medicine is called:
MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
