Upon completion, students should be able to identify body system components and functions relating this knowledge to the delivery of health care. This course covers legal relationships of physicians and patients, contractual agreements, professional liability, malpractice, medical practice acts, informed consent, and bioethical issues. Emphasis is placed on legal terms, professional attitudes, and the principles and basic concepts of ethics and laws involved in providing medical services. Upon completion, students should be able to meet the legal and ethical responsibilities of a multi-skilled health professional. This course introduces the vocabulary, abbreviations, and symbols used in the language of medicine.
Emphasis is placed on building medical terms using prefixes, suffixes, and word roots.
Upon completion, students should be able to pronounce, spell, and define accepted medical terms. This course introduces prefixes, suffixes, and word roots used in the language of medicine. Topics include medical vocabulary and the terms that relate to the anatomy, physiology, pathological conditions, and treatment of selected systems. Upon completion, students should be able to pronounce, spell, and define medical terms as related to selected body systems and their pathological disorders. This course is the second in a series of medical terminology courses.