Medical English

The program is designed to develop the understanding of medical vocabulary to function in a wide variety of health related settings. The course gives a new approach to important medical terms,illustrates medical terminology within the context of stories about patients. Students will study word elements (prefixes, suffixes and roots), terms in anatomy and physiology, selected diseases, symptoms, procedures, x-ray and laboratory tests in common usage, and commonly used abbreviations. Emphasis will be on accurate spelling, meaning of terms and word elements. Extensive practice will be provided in reading or listening to medical terminology and understanding its meaning, pronouncing terms correctly, and writing medical vocabulary appropriately.