Do you think benign is what you are after you are eight
  or a coma is a punctuation mark?

  Would you know a sacro-illiac fossa from a sack of lilac fossils?

OUR UNDERSTANDING MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY TRAINING COURSE

MAY BE THE COURSE FOR YOU !

 

MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY TRAINING COURSE OVERVIEW

 

 

A proper understanding of medical terminology is an important component of many jobs. Employees who use medical terminology regularly in the course of their work include administrative, clerical, nursing, secretarial and reception staff in medical practices and hospitals, as well as administrative and claims assessment staff in insurance companies There are many nurses who want to remain in the medical field and train into administrative positions, and women wanting to return to the medical based workforce. Both these groups may need to upgrade their skill in medical terminology and this medical terminology training courses will fit the bill!!

As Primary care organisations develop there will be many managers and officers who will be expected to have a working knowledge of clinical terminology in order to better communicate with the medical profession. These organisations will also have a vested interest in the quality of clinical data recording in their constituent practices. Good quality data recording requires a good understanding of terminology by non-clinicians.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND this Medical Terminology Course?   

Non-clinicians who record clinical data

Nurses returning to work

Managers dealing with clinicians

Information staff dealing with clinical data

 

PROGRAM CONTENTof the Medical Terminology Course:

The evolution of medical words

Who uses these words and why

Demystifying medical terms

Prefixes and root terms

Suffixes

General abbreviations

Body systems:

Gastro-intestinal

Cardiovascular

Respiratory

Central nervous

Endocrine

Exercises and self-assessment test

Advice on useful tools

Final review and questions

How do I book a course?

 

Contact your LHB training department and ask if they will commission a Training Day.... send them a link to this Web-site or ask them to ring the number below.