Badge of Practice
Course Description
You will learn to explain derivation of medical terms; Recognize medical word roots, prefixes, and suffixes; Identify prefixes of position, color, numbers and measurement, negation, and direction; Formulate medical terms combining roots, prefixes, and suffixes; Interpret basic medical abbreviations and symbols; Utilize diagnostic, surgical, procedural terms, and abbreviations.
Learning Outcomes
- Explain derivation of medical terms.
- Recognize medical word roots, prefixes, and suffixes.
- Recall basic medical terms.
- Identify prefixes of position, color, numbers and measurement, negation, and direction.
- Formulate medical terms utilizing roots.
- Construct medical terms utilizing prefixes.
- List medical terms combining roots, prefixes, and suffixes.
- Interpret basic medical abbreviations and symbols.
- Utilize diagnostic, surgical, procedural terms, and abbreviations related to the following systems
- Utilize diagnostic, surgical, procedural terms, and abbreviations related to specific medical conditions.
Instructor
- Associate ProfessorKasey Strickland MSN, RN
- South Georgia State College
Teaching:FallSpring
January
6
Spring
2026
Start Date
April
30
Spring
2026
End DateUpcoming refers to the next academic term after the current one.
May
1
Summer
2025
Start Date
September
2
Summer
2025
End DateDuration
16 weeks
Instruction Method