I. General Information

1. Course Title:
Medical Terminology

2. Course Prefix & Number:
MEDA 1128

3. Course Credits and Contact Hours:

Credits: 1

Lecture Hours: 1

Lab Hours: 0

4. Course Description:

This course teaches students to recognize and build medical terms after learning the meaning of word parts. The course is based on a systems approach.

5. Placement Tests Required:

6. Prerequisite Courses:

There are no prerequisites for this course.

9. Co-requisite Courses:

There are no corequisites for this course.

II. Transfer and Articulation

1. Course Equivalency - similar course from other regional institutions:

Hennepin Technical College, NURS 1120, 1 credit
Northland College, HLTH 1106, 2 credits

2. Transfer - regional institutions with which this course has a written articulation agreement:

III. Course Purpose

1. Program-Applicable Courses – This course is required for the following program(s):

Medical Assistant, Diploma
Medical Assistant, AAS Degree

IV. Learning Outcomes

1. College-Wide Outcomes

College-Wide Outcomes/Competencies	Students will be able to:
Demonstrate oral communication skills	Identify and use correct medical terminology in oral conversation.
Demonstrate written communication skills	Demonstrate understanding of word parts and use correctly in written material.
Utilize appropriate technology	Utilize correct medical terminology in a computerized electronic health record written report.

2. Course Specific Outcomes - Students will be able to achieve the following measurable goals upon completion of the course:

• Identify the role and recognize examples of medical word roots and combining forms;
• Identify the role and recognize examples of medical prefixes and suffixes;
• Demonstrate understanding of the rules for using word parts to form medical terms;
• Identify medical terminology specific to each body system.

V. Topical Outline

Listed below are major areas of content typically covered in this course.

1. Lecture Sessions

1. Introduction and orientation
• Text book
2. Word building
• Word parts
• Forming plurals
• Pronunciation
3. Using combining forms
• Build terms
• Apply combining forms for use in different  medical specialties
4. Using suffixes
• Build medical terms
• Build terms related to diseases and disorders
5. Using prefixes
• Build medical terms
• Build terms related to diseases and disorders
6. Understand and utilize
• Organizational scheme
• Anatomical and directional terms
• Body regions and cavities
7. Identify, understand and utilize terminology for the following systems
• Blood  
• Immune
• Cardiovascular
• Lymphatic
• Respiratory
• Digestive 
• Urinary
• Reproductive  
• Musculoskeletal
• Nervous 
• Integumentary
• Endocrine

2. Laboratory/Studio Sessions