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Medical Terminology — HEAL 1502

1. Course Description
   • Credits: 2.00
   • Lecture Hours/Week: 2.00
   • Lab Hours/Week: 0.00
   • OJT Hours/Week: 0
   • Prerequisites: None
   • Corequisites: None
   • MnTC Goals: None
   This course introduces students to medical terms and their meanings. Students will learn combining forms, word roots, prefixes, suffixes, and how these word parts apply to building medical terms. Students will also learn common medical abbreviations and symbols.
2. Course Effective Dates: 1/7/02 – Present
3. Outline of Major Content Areas
   1. Defining medical terms
   2. Medical terms for procedures, treatments, pathology, testing, diagnoses
   3. Prefixes, suffixes, and word roots
   4. Pronouncing medical terms
   5. SOAP medical documentation
   6. Separating medical terms into prefixes, suffixes, and word roots
4. Learning Outcomes
   1. Apply medical terminology to their profession.
   2. Define medical terms.
   3. Spell medical terms.
   4. Pronounce medical terms.
   5. Define prefixes, suffixes, and word roots.
   6. Learn medical terms for procedures and treatments.
   7. Utilize the SOAP medical documentation charting method.
5. Minnesota Transfer Curriculum Goal Area(s) and Competencies
   
6. Learner Outcomes Assessment
   As noted on course syllabus
7. Special Information
   None noted