Michele Deck

Amy , I'm glad you encourage the students to answer all the questions. Some students think this will penalize them, but you know it gives them a safe place to try to learn.

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Amy Furda

I tell students medical terminology is really a new language, and it's not a type of memorization class in that you can acurately define a word you've never seen before just by breaking it down into parts and defining each of the parts. On their first quiz I told them never to leave a space blank, but to attempt to apply their knowledge of each piece to make an educated guess.

Michele Deck

Ann, yes it will provide the basis of job knowledge.

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Ann VanderMolen

Learning to understand the parts of a medical word is invaluable information students will use throughout their careers.

Michele Deck

Mignonne, we know the value of knowing medical terminology, the students must see the importance, too.

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Mignonne Davis

It is much to the benefit of all the students to teach them during this important class the value of learning prefixes, word roots, combining forms, and suffixes. It is valuable knowledge which will help them in years to come in the medical field.

Tahiddie Griffin

I LIKE TO USE CROSSWORD ALSO; THIS IS A GOOD MIND STIMULATION TOOL.

Ginell Agnew CHEP

I love it also because it is the foundation of any further medical terminology.

Michele Deck

sandy, I'm glad you like this idea.

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sandy hunter

This is a wonderful explanation for new students, much better than the way I was taught. I am going to try it next week!

allen moien

If I am going to be in medicine, it is imperative to learn the language; like going to a foreign country. I teach terminology in a medical assistant program. I use and recommend the use of index cards. Since I have such a varied education backgound on my students, I want to use something simple and easy to use. Also repitation using flash cards is easy and the students have a fun time practicing on eachother, We usually split the room up and play group A vs. group B

Michele Deck

If you teach them to build the meanings as you have described, they will never be lost.

Barbara Davis

I teach medical terminology by breaking the words into parts and having the students learn the meaning of the various word parts. I make a point of telling them that this beats how I as a nurse had to learn terminology-- it was strictly by memorization of the entire term, there was no class or no one to tell me that it could be broken down into parts: prefixes, word roots, combining forms, and suffixes. I also tell the students that if they learn to do this, they will be able to utilize this practice as a test-taking strategy to help them answer test questions and to make an educated guess if they do not know the answer.

Dinesh Patel CHEP

Thanks Talukdar,

I love it also because it is the foundation of any further medical subject with out it like you are china and how strange you fell!!!!!

Michele Deck

I like that you break down the words and the concepts for them.

Michele Deck

I'm glad you like it and it works for you and your students.

EHTESHAM TALUKDAR

Thanks Patel.
I love medical terminology.I am always teach them prefix-root-suffix. Each word they connected by vowel.Example Nephrology(Nephr means kidney+o(vowel)+logy-study)