Media Type: Microsoft® PowerPoint® Presentation

Duration: 69 slides

Goal: Students will learn the importance of medical terminology and evaluate common medical terms and word structures, abbreviations and symbols.

Description: Students will learn the importance of word structure and terminology in the medical field. Root words, prefixes, suffixes, compound words and combining forms will all be detailed as well as body planes and directional terms along with common medical abbreviations and symbols.

Objectives: 1. To recognize common medical prefixes, suffixes and roots. 2. To define medical terms and discover their meanings. 3. To identify medical terminology, abbreviations and symbols.

Daily Grades:

Thursday, Aug. 18th there will be a notebook check on powerpoint slides 1-30.

Friday, Aug. 19th there will be a 5 question multiple choice quiz.