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Course Information

Course Title	Code	Semester	L+U Hour	Credits	ECTS
INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY	TDS159	1. Semester	3 + 0	3.0	3.0

Prerequisites

None

Language of Instruction	Turkish
Course Level	Associate's Degree
Course Type	Compulsory
Mode of delivery
Course Coordinator
Instructors	Perihan ŞENEL TEKİN
Assistants
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) Able to analyse medical terminology. 2) Understand and apply the rules of reading and spelling of medical terms. 3) Learns the roots that make up the medical term. 4) Learns the prefixes that form medical terms. 5) Learns suffixes forming medical terms.