MCOD 1045 - Medical Terminology for Medical Coders
3 Credits
Medical Terminology for Medical Coders focuses on the medical language ? identifying medical term elements, prefixes, suffixes and abbreviations. Construction, definition and pronunciation of terms that relate to the structure and function of the human body, system-related diseases and medical procedures will be addressed. In addition, a variety of medical record reports will be analyzed and interpreted by incorporating the understanding of the medical language.
Major Content Areas
analyze and interpret patient surgical reports construct and deconstruct medical terms to define medical terms identify and define common prefixes used in the medical language identify and define medical combining forms identify and define common suffixes used in the medical language identify and define common medical abbreviations analyze and interpret patient progress notes
Learning Outcomes
Demonstrate construction of medical terms using the word elements. Demonstrate deconstruction of medical terms when defining medical terms Apply understanding of medical terms for interpretation of medical reports Define the meaning of medical abbreviations. Demonstrate singular to plural conversion of medical terms. Define the various word elements found in medical terms: word roots, combining forms, prefixes, and suffixes. Describe the diagnostic procedures and tests for the specialty areas. Define medical terms for the specialty areas.
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