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Active as of Fall Semester 2014
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:
MEDA 1128 - Medical Terminology
There are no prerequisites for this course.
9. Co-requisite Courses:
MEDA 1128 - Medical Terminology
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
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
- Introduction and orientation
- Word building
- Word parts
- Forming plurals
- Pronunciation
- Using combining forms
- Build terms
- Apply combining forms for use in different medical specialties
- Using suffixes
- Build medical terms
- Build terms related to diseases and disorders
- Using prefixes
- Build medical terms
- Build terms related to diseases and disorders
- Understand and utilize
- Organizational scheme
- Anatomical and directional terms
- Body regions and cavities
- 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
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:
MEDA 1128 - Medical Terminology
There are no prerequisites for this course.
9. Co-requisite Courses:
MEDA 1128 - Medical Terminology
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
- Introduction and orientation
- Word building
- Word parts
- Forming plurals
- Pronunciation
- Using combining forms
- Build terms
- Apply combining forms for use in different medical specialties
- Using suffixes
- Build medical terms
- Build terms related to diseases and disorders
- Using prefixes
- Build medical terms
- Build terms related to diseases and disorders
- Understand and utilize
- Organizational scheme
- Anatomical and directional terms
- Body regions and cavities
- 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