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Medical Terminology Course: Welcome

This LibGuide hosts a tutorial on basic medical terminology.

Welcome!

Welcome to Medical Terminology: Communication in Medicine from the Health Science Center Libraries! This asynchronous workshop will help you: 

  • Identify how medical terms are constructed
  • Describe the organization of the body and directional terms used in medicine
  • Recognize medical terms as applied to body systems and functions
  • Learn terms applied to diseases, diagnoses, and treatments

This course is appropriate as an introduction to medical terminology. This is an asynchronous course designed to take place over three sessions. Please utilize the tabs to navigate between each session. When registering for each session, please use the same name and email for each, then complete the course evaluation to receive your certificate. 

Acknowledgements

  • ​​​​​​Thank you to Kathy Moeller and Jennifer Lyon for original development of this course 
  • Thank you to Jane Morgan-Daniel and Sarah Meyer for updating and revising the slides 
  • Medical Terminology in a Flash: A multiple learning styles approach. By Lisa Finnegan and Sharon Eagle. 2016, FA Davis Company
  • Pixabay for non-medical images

Questions?

For assistance or questions regarding this tutorial, please contact hsclreference@ad.ufl.edu 

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