Essentials of Medical Language ©2024
Grades: 9 - 12
Designed to help students master the complex language of modern health care, students experience the terminology in the same differentiated diagnosis method a physician uses in an examination.
Program Details
Essentials of Medical Language incorporates motivation to learn, retention of material, and opportunities for application and practice to create an engaging learning experience. Students assume the role of an allied health professional specializing in that chapter’s body system and learn new medical terms in the context of a patient case. Students have multiple opportunities to apply what they have learned with practice exercises in each lesson and questions at the end of each chapter.
• Organized by body system in an outside-to-inside sequence
• Contextual approach promotes active learning
• Students experience each real-life case from different allied health and LPN-level nursing roles
• Over 2,000 medical terms with their pronunciation, elements, and definition
• Color coded prefixes, suffixes, and combining forms
• Audible pronunciation glossary included in the digital edition
• Over 100 questions and exercises to build critical soft skills
• Digital teaching guide features presentation materials, discussion prompts, pre-made assessments, question banks, and project-based learning resources
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• Organized by body system in an outside-to-inside sequence
• Contextual approach promotes active learning
• Students experience each real-life case from different allied health and LPN-level nursing roles
• Over 2,000 medical terms with their pronunciation, elements, and definition
• Color coded prefixes, suffixes, and combining forms
• Audible pronunciation glossary included in the digital edition
• Over 100 questions and exercises to build critical soft skills
• Digital teaching guide features presentation materials, discussion prompts, pre-made assessments, question banks, and project-based learning resources
See Resources Tab for additional information
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