Class Information

Syllabus

Clinic Painter, Physician Treating a Patient, Red-figure Attic aryballos, ca. 480–470 B.C.E. The Louvre Museum, Paris © Wikimedia Commons

Course Description

This course provides a systematic introduction to medical and scientific terminology. The classes will focus upon acquiring a familiarity with the common Greek and Latin roots, prefixes and suffixes that are constantly repeated in various arrangements in those terms, and in the principles of word analysis and synthesis. In addition, some honey around the medicinal cup will be provided by relevant anecdotes from ancient literature, mythology, history and even medical authors, together with a humorous look at some hysterically inappropriate medical terms still in use today.

There are no prerequisites for this course. No background knowledge of Latin, Greek or Biology is required. This course counts toward the Area D or elective requirements.

Course Requirements

There will be 7 regular quizzes. The worst of the first 6 will be dropped and the remaining quizzes will count as 90% of the course grade.

There will be 3 pop quizzes. The worst will be dropped and the other 2 will count for 10% of the course grade.

There will be no “rounding up”, no curving and NO FINAL.

Each quiz consists of 45 multiple choice questions and uses a scantron. Remember to bubble your name on your Scantron. If you don’t, you won’t get a grade.

Scholastic dishonesty will result in a grade of zero.

Upon request, appropriate academic accommodations will be provided to qualified students with disabilities.

Students can make up work missed for a religious holiday if they provide notice in advance.

Course Schedule

Week 1 Introduction, Essential Terms and Medical Record
Week 2 Integumentary System

Quiz 1 Basic Term Components, Medical Record, Integumentary System

Week 3 Musculoskeletal System
Week 4 Cardiovascular System

Quiz 2 Musculoskeletal & Cardiovascular

Week 5 Blood and Lymph Systems
Week 6 Respiratory System

Quiz 3 Blood, Lymph and Respiratory

Week 7 Nervous System
Week 8 Endocrine System

Quiz 4 Nervous and Endocrine

Week 9 The Eye
Week 10 The Ear

Quiz 5 Eye and Ear

Week 11 Gastrointestinal System
Week 12 Urinary System

Quiz 6 Gastrointestinal and Urinary

Week 13 Male Reproductive System
Week 14 Female Reproductive System

Quiz 7 Male and Female Reproductive

Useful Links

Link to Medical Terminology solutions

Department of Classics
http://www.utexas.edu/cola/depts/classics/

Library Catalog
http://catalog.lib.utexas.edu/

Blackboard
http://www.utexas.edu/academic/blackboard/

Studying for multiple choice exams
http://www.erc.tulane.edu/studying/multiple.php
http://www.uwec.edu/geOGrApHY/Ivogeler/multiple.htm