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SGT 1020 - Medical and Surgical Terminology


Clock Hours: 36

Delivery Mode
on-ground

Course Description:
This course provides the student with the foundation for recognizing and understanding medical terminology. The main portion of this course is to give the student a better understanding of medical terminology as it applies to each specific body system in preparation for Anatomy and Physiology.

Student Learning Outcomes:
Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of:

  1. Combine prefixes, word roots, and suffixes to create medical terms related to surgery.
  2.  Construct and combine compound words.
  3.  Pronounce and write correctly medical terms related to surgery.
  4.  Begin to identify disease processes and other medical terminology specific to   individual body systems.
  5.  Begin to identify with Commonly Used Medical Abbreviation.