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" It’s said that to be happy at work, you need to get a job doing something you love. "

Are you looking for a career in the Heath Care field?

Do you need to have an understanding of medical terminology to get that promotion?

Does your job demand that you have a basic understanding of medical terminology?

This 40 hour program presents a study of basic medical terminology structured around a survey of systems of the human body in health and disease.

Students will aquire the foundation for fluency in modern medical language and will have demonstrated an ability to apply this language in the workplace and life situations with precision, accuracy, and clarity.

Abbreviations are emphasized and introduced with the terminology appropriate to each system. Prefixes, suffices, word roots, combining forms, special endings, plural forms, and relevant symbols are included in the content.

A word building approach is used to learn word parts for constructing and analyzing new terms. This provides the opportunity to decipher unfamiliar terms and check their spelling.