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Current Catalog Year: 2025-2026

Course Blurbs and Essential Objectives

AHS-1205   Medical Terminology   3 Credits
 
This course encompasses the development and use of medical vocabulary. Students learn medical terms and abbreviations to name diseases and disorders, diagnostics, and surgical procedures in the context of body systems and related health professions. Students use prefixes, word roots, combining forms, and suffixes to interpret the meaning of medical terms with the goal of reducing errors.
 
    1. Demonstrate the use of word roots, combining forms, prefixes, and suffixes that form most medical terms.
    2. Define, spell, pronounce, and employ a fundamental vocabulary of medical terms.
    3. Translate medical terminology from word/terms to abbreviations and from abbreviations to word/terms.
    4. Relate appropriate medical terms to structures and functions of the human body and related body systems (e.g. musculoskeletal, immune, endocrine, nervous, respiratory, cardiovascular, and digestive).
    5. Identify and define medical terms related to diseases and disorders.
    6. Identify and define medical terms related to diagnostic and surgical procedures.
    7. Research the current use of terminology and abbreviations.
    8. Use medical terms and abbreviations in context.
    9. Demonstrate appropriate use of a medical dictionary and reliable online sources and cite references in APA format.
    10. Explain how data and quantitative reasoning are used in healthcare professions.
    11. Identify biases in healthcare, including discrimination, implicit bias, and systemic racism, and the impact they have on the health outcomes of individuals and groups.


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