Ventura College Medical
Terminology
COURSE SYLLABUS
Instructor:
Carol Coltrin RN, MPH
Distance Learning Coordinator
Phone:
805 654-6400 ext. 1306(W)
805 647-0266(H)
E-mail: - hedv93@yahoo.com
Course Title:
Medical Terminology
Bus 27A
Method of Instruction:
Course offered via the Internet
Credits:
3
Course Description:
This course is intended to assist those
studying in the fields of medicine and health care by learning a word-building
system for defining, using, spelling and pronouncing medical words. Thousands of
words may be built by learning the Latin and Greek parts. This course is
designed for students who wish to work in hospitals and physicians’ offices as
medical secretaries and/or transcriptions.
Content:
Construction of medical terms, medical suffixes, medical term roots and medical
prefixes. A study of the body systems including the integumentary system;
skeletal system; muscular system; nervous system; eyes and ears; digestive
system; endocrine system; cardiovascular system; respiratory system; blood,
lymphatic and immune systems; urinary and male reproductive systems; and the
female reproductive system, human genetics and obstetrics. Medical specialties
including medical imaging, terms used in psychiatry, pharmacology, laboratory
terminology and surgical terminology.
Course Objectives:
Upon completion of this course, the student
will:
- The
student will be furnished with an understanding of the need and reason for
the technical language of medicine in the medical office.
- The
students will understand how terms come to be and how they are formed
- The
student will be able to build, a background vocabulary in medical
terminology
- The
student will learn a complete word building systems that makes it easy for
him or her to understand the growing medical terminology
- The
student will understand the prefixes, suffixes and combining terms that
cut across the anatomic systems
- The
student will be able to learn medical terminology quickly and easily by
learning the Latin and Greek word parts.
- Use
common medical abbreviations and terms in written and/or oral assignments.
Prerequisites
None
Required Textbook:
Ehrlich, Ann, Medical Terminology for Health
Professions.
| Edition: |
4E |
| Author: |
Ann Ehrlich and Carol L. Schroeder |
| Copyright: |
2001 |
| Parent ISBN: |
07668-1297-9 |
| Web Tutor ISBN: |
07668-2775-5 |
| Publisher: |
Delmar Thomson Learning |
A stand alone access code package for using
the WebTutor on-line course that accompanies this textbook. You will purchase
this separately from the bookstore. You must purchase this access code to be
able to take the course.
| Web Tutor ISBN: |
07668-2775-5 |
In addition, any medical dictionary, though
not required, is inexpensive and available at most bookstores. It will be a
mainstay in your efforts to learn the health care terminology particularly
when you are working with the real life case studies.
EVALUATION METHODS:
Several methods will be used to
evaluate your performance in this course. They include:
Learning Activities and Class
Participation- 200points
While learning medical terminology
from your text, it will be important to be aware of the uses of medical
terminology in the world around you. You will be doing a number of activities
including making an audio tape of some of the words for pronunciation, case
studies, word analysis, health assessment and review. There is a required
research paper worth 50 points.
Class participation occurs mainly
through the bulletin board. Besides postings concerning the every-day use of
medical terms (described above), post questions you have as you study. Please
use the private mail function for specific communication, one to another, not
meant to be shared with the class. You must logon at least 3 times per week. I
will be tracking this.
Quizzes and Final - 300pts
There are frequent quizzes I
will post a note to remind you to take them but you may also take them as you
feel prepared. You will receive immediate feedback from the computer
regarding your selections. The self-tests are for grins only.
(That means they are not graded.) Try the self-tests as often as you wish.
Final Examination - 100pts
One final examination will be given,
and yes, the final exam will be comprehensive. Total points earned will be
compiled according to weighted scoring of each of the tasks listed.
The following grade scale is used:
| 90-100% |
A |
| 80-89% |
B |
| 70-79% |
C |
| 60-69% |
D |
| Less than 60% = failure
for the course. |
|
Method of Instruction:
An on-line course necessarily means that the
student must be extremely self motivated and independent in his or her
learning. Since there is no class to attend, each participant must pay
particular attention to time management and minimize procrastination in
handling assignments. The way the instruction will be handled is as
follows:
- Each week you will access your assignment
by entering the course site at http://cvc2.org/webct/
You will first view the course calendar to determine the
weeks unit. Once you have determined the week's topic you will enter the course
content by clicking on the content icon and then choose the topic
of the week. From there you will be instructed to complete various
assignments which may include reading and completing exercises in the
text, reading selected case studies and defining terminology, completing
quizzes in the quiz module, completing crossword puzzles, completing
exercises on the diskette that accompany your text, and responding to
questions posed via e-mail or through a chat modality.
Late Work
Late assignments will earn a deduction of 10
points for each day any work is late.
Course
Schedule
Week-by-Week
Coverage - Follow this
link to see a week by week assignment.
The course will run over a 15 week period moving
at a pace of approximately one chapter per week.
REFERENCE MATERIALS
In addition, the following general references
are available in the campus library:
- Black's Medical Dictionary
- Miller and Keane, Encyclopedia and
Dictionary of
- Medicine. Nursing and Allied Health
- Mosby's Medical and Nursing Dictionary
- Patterson, Sandra, Medical Terminology from
Greek to Latin
- Rice, Jane, Medical Terminology with Human
Anatomy
Other references are available in the campus
librarys and in community libraries. Additionally, you may want
to purchase audiotapes to help with pronunciation. A medical dictionary
is inexpensive and will significantly help with words not in your book.
LATE ASSIGNMENTS AND MAKE-UP
TEST POLICY
There will be no make-up exams provided except under extenuating circumstances.
Arrangements must be made prior to the exam or no credit will be given.
The quizzes will have a strict "window" during which you must take the
quiz. Typically this will be within 4 or 5 days. Be sure you are ready. Learning
activities are due to be posted anytime during that class week.
RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM
DESIGN
This course may or may not serve to meet requirements of the program to which
you are applying. Inquire directly with the specific programs under
consideration.
ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL
INTEGRITY
It is expected that students will use their own knowledge and skills for
assignments and tests unless directed to do otherwise. Incidents of
cheating, plagiarism or knowingly providing false or incorrect information are
considered serious and will be treated seriously. Consequences of these
incidents are at the discretion of the faculty member(s) involved and may
consist of confiscation of assignments/ tests, an F grade of 0 for the portion
of the class covered by the assignments/test or removal from the course with an
F grade.