1 University of Florida Department of Health Education & Behavior College of Health and Human Performance 1.General Course Information HSC 3537: Health & Medical Terminology / 3 credit hrs / FALL 2014 / FULLY ONLINE SECTION: 1E94 ATTENTION:THIS COURSE DOES NOT USE SAKAI Professor/Coordinator: Dr. Christine Stopka (Ph.D., ATC, LAT, CSCS, CAPE, MTAA), Professor, Dept of HEB; 173 FLG; (352) 294-1814; Email:[email protected] Teaching Assistants: Ms. Zeerak Haider, MS, CHES, Health Education & Behavior, Rm 106-F; (352) 294-1821; Email:[email protected] Mr. Edward Buckley, MS, CHES, Health Education & Behavior, Room, 106-K, FLG; (352) 294-1815; Email:[email protected] Course Description: This course is designed to: (1) Improve your vocabulary skills; (2) Prepare you for advanced professional preparation courses by incorporating content taught in advanced medical and scientific courses; (3) Provide you with multiple(3000)color medical pictures that will visually assist you in understanding why specific word parts were selected to form the thousands of specialized compound Medical, Scientific, and English terms discussed in this course; (4) Prepare you for professional school admission tests like the GRE, MCAT, PCAT & DAT.; (5) Provide you with the word part and compound term memorization, repetition, and reinforcement needed to assure mastery of this unique “Language of Medicine,”and finally, to (6) Provide you with an opportunity to study and replay the audio-visual online lectures and complete the self-testing activities at your convenience. In addition; free access to multiple medical web search engines (eg., webMD and more) is provided! Course Overview:This is a three credit hour computer based classroom course.The800 pageonline printable textbook contains interactive audio-visual lecture pages that prepare each student for the1000 self-testing flashcardsand the800 multiple choiceself-test questions. Ten chapter exercises will follow Chapters 4 and 6-14; to help you review the content on the Final Exam.All of your coursework, including your chapter exercises, must be completed before you can take the final exam.Your coursework counts for 50% of your course grade; your final exam counts for the other 50% of your course grade. 2.Course Objectives:The student will be able to: A.Become fluentwith meanings and use of medical terms. B.Spell and Defineprefixes, suffixes, and stem words. C.Identify and Explainthe function of specific, medical word parts. D.Describehow medical compound terms (words) are constructed. E.Buildcompound terms using multiple word parts in a combining form. F.Fracture and Analyzekey compound medical terms in the Word Part Flashcards, Mult. Choice Questions, & Lecture Slides. G.Definekey compound medical terms found on the flashcards, both “literal” meanings and “actual” meanings.
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