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Course Title	Code	Semester	L+U Hour	Credits	ECTS
MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY I	TSU103	1. Semester	3 + 0	3.0	6.0

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Language of Instruction	Turkish
Course Level	Associate's Degree
Course Type	Compulsory
Mode of delivery	Distance Education
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Goals	The purpose of medical terminology, to ensure good communication between health care professionals and medical terms that are needed to teach the use of a common language.
Course Content	This course consists of the origin of medical language, the component parts of a medical term, basic prefix, suffixes and roots; the common rules for proper medical term formation, pronunciation, and spelling of medical terms; basic terms and abbreviations used in documenting health records; the common forms used in documenting the care of a patient; the common anatomical terms related to the major systems of the body; common terms related to symptoms, diagnoses, surgeries, therapies, and diagnostic test related to the major systems of the body.
Learning Outcomes	1) The basic constructs of medical terms are spelling, reading and learning with meanings 2) He/She will be able to analyse the component parts of a medical term, basic prefix, suffixes and roots; the common rules for proper medical term formation, pronunciation, and spelling of medical terms. 3) He/She will be able to analyse the component parts of a medical term, basic prefix, suffixes and roots; the common rules for proper medical term formation, pronunciation, and spelling of medical terms. 4) He/She will be able to analyse the component parts of a medical term, basic prefix, suffixes and roots; the common rules for proper medical term formation, pronunciation, and spelling of medical terms. 5) He/She will be able to analyse the component parts of a medical term, basic prefix, suffixes and roots; the common rules for proper medical term formation, pronunciation, and spelling of medical terms.