AHM 1060 - Medical Terminology

Clock Hours: 24

Delivery Mode
on-ground

Course Description:
The goal of the course is to improve the essential worker characteristics of students to prepare them for entrance into the workforce The course is based around the ten traits that have been identified as being needed to foster positive work habits 

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

Identify basic objectives to guide your study of the medical language

Divide medical words into their component parts

Learn the meanings of basic combining forms, suffixes, and prefixes of the medical language

Use these combining forms, suffixes, and prefixes to build medical words

Define new suffixes and review those presented in previous chapter

Gain practice in word analysis by using these suffixes with combining forms to build and understand terms

Identify the functions of the different types of ways to put medical words together using suffixes,

Define basic prefixes used in medical language

Analyze medical terms that combine prefixes and other word elements

Define and Identify Medical Abbreviations through weekly spelling quiz forms

Use proper abbreviations and symbols with medical documentation