Online Free Course in Introduction to Medical Terminology

This free online course aims to introduce the basic building blocks of medical terminology. It is divided into four topics, and each topic takes about 1 hour to complete. The topics introduce you to the basics you need to understand and use medical terminology, and examples are used to illustrate the concepts covered. There are activities and quizzes throughout the topics to help you reinforce your learning and to let you practice identifying, analysing and building medical terms. There is a word list in the useful resources section containing all the terms covered in this course that you can download and print. The list has spaces for you to add other useful medical terms that you encounter.
Training Type: Self-Paced,

Target Audience: anyone wanting to learn the basics of medical terminology, including medical and nursing students; students studying for professions allied to medicine; those interested in a career as a medical secretary or transcriptionist; students whose first language is not English who are interested in studying medicine in an English-speaking country; and anyone who is interested in understanding more about the language of medicine.

How to apply: Go to mondofacto courses to register for this course.

Deadline: Open

Languages: English

Fees: Free Training Course

Publisher: Mondofacto

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