Introduction to 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 10 minutes before the start of the session for registration and AV equipment check

• £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 them to break down technical terms into understandable sections);
• decipher terminology associated with various diseases;
• recognise commonly used abbreviations and medical symbols;

• PowerPoint presentation
• Interactive Group exercises
• Demonstration using anatomical dummy
• Quiz

Delegates are given a digital manual for use during the session and for reference afterwards.