Introduction to Medical Terminology

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Target Audience

Medical assistants, dental assistants, social workers, registrars, medical record personnel, billers, coders, community health workers, telehealth professionals, unit secretaries, case managers, medical Interpreters and anyone interested in gaining a basic knowledge of medical terminology.

Description

This course will introduce vocabulary, abbreviations and symbols used in the language of medicine. Emphasis will be focused on building medical terms using prefixes, suffixes, combining forms and word roots.

Faculty
Gabriela Staley, MEd
CPD Education Specialist, South Piedmont AHEC

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Credit Information
This Activity fulfills the requirement of 0.2 Continuing Education Units (CEUs), representing 1.5 contact hours.

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ADA Statement
If you need any auxiliary aids or services identified in the American with Disabilities Act in order to attend this conference, please contact Gabriela Staley by email at Gabriela.Staley@atriumhealth.org

Objectives

• Identify common medical conditions associated with each specialty
• Explain the rules for combining word parts to write medical terms
• Recognize the directional terms and planes of the body
• Match medical specialist with the area in which they specialize
• Recognize prefixes, suffixes combining forms and word roots

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