Medical terminology

• Staff who are new to a medical environment;
• Those who are unfamiliar with medical terms;
• Established staff who have not received any formal training in understanding terminology, including: practice managers, administrative staff; receptionists, healthcare support workers.

Allow 15 minutes before the start of the session for registration and AV equipment check

Delegates must have functioning audio and video to ensure full attendance and participation in the course. In exceptional circumstances, when no audio or video is available, attendance on the course will be confirmed by continued participation in the Zoom chat function.

Certificates will not be issued if full attendance/participation has not been confirmed.

• £95 per delegate (inclusive of VAT) for attendees from Londonwide practices.
• £120 per delegate (inclusive of VAT) for attendees from practices from other areas.

• An introduction to how medical terms are constructed;
• Common suffixes;
• Common prefixes;
• Common roots;
• How individual root words are attributed to different organs.

It removes some of the fear of working with technical medical terms and as a result delegates will be better able to deal safely and efficiently with clinical correspondence.

• Explain the concept that medical terminology can be broken down into component parts of prefixes, root words and suffixes;
• State the meaning of six common prefixes, six common root words and six common suffixes. (Long term this ‘toolkit’ will enable delegates to break down technical terms into understandable sections.);
• Decipher terminology associated with various diseases;
• Recognise commonly used abbreviations and medical symbols.

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