Basic Medical Language with Flash Cards

LaFleur Brooks, Myrna, Levinsky, Dale M., LaFleur Brooks, Danielle

ISBN 10: 0323533191 / ISBN 13: 9780323533195

Verlag: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division, 2018

Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 45160216-6

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The perfect text for a shorter medical terminology course, Basic Medical Language, 6th Edition provides the foundation you need to confidently communicate with other members of your health care team. This basic medical vocabulary text focuses on building word skills by explaining a carefully selected group of suffixes, prefixes, and combining forms to provide the basis for recognizing and defining hundreds of medical terms. Clear, illustrated lessons present terms by body system, introducing word parts and providing review exercises that ask you to define terms or combine word parts to create terms. The new edition of this text also reinforces what you’ve learned with case studies, images, exercises and carefully crafted Evolve resources.

• Over 200 flash cards packaged free with the text make it easier for you to memorize terms.
• Electronic health record mockups provide exposure to the electronic health records that you will encounter in practice.
• Systemic presentation of medical terms helps you learn and recognize new words as you encounter them by combining parts.
• Case studies serve as review sections and provide additional opportunities for you to apply what you have learned.
• Engaging integrated exercises, including matching, building, and reading medical terms in context.
• Consistent organization and pacing of lessons ensures steady acquisition of terminology.
• Objectives integrated with headings clarify how the content is presented within lessons and show you how objectives relate to content.

• NEW! An expanded Career Focus feature highlights professionals whose work focuses on specific body systems.
• NEW! Integrated chapter quizzes test your knowledge and provide instant feedback on your progress.
• NEW! Updated terminology and illustrations provide students with the latest pathology and procedure information.
• NEW! Expanded abbreviation lists provide you with the most important healthcare abbreviations.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren: Danielle has taught medical terminology and medical assisting courses in face-to-face, hybrid, and online formats since 2008. She has led the writing of Basic Medical Language since 1996, utilizing her knowledge of how students learn based on her previous career as a high school English Teacher. She is the co-author of Exploring Medical Language.

Myrna was a health science faculty member and division chair with the Maricopa County Community College for 27 years. During that time she taught medical terminology and developed the curriculum for seven other health occupation education programs. She is also the co-author of Exploring Medical Language.

Dr. Levinsky is a board-certified family medicine physician. She currently teaches case-based instruction at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson, where she is a Clinical Associate Professor in the department Family and Community Medicine. She also supervises medical students in three clinics dedicated to the care of underserved patients. She is the co-author of Exploring Medical Language.

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Basic Medical Language with Flash Cards
Verlag: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Zustand: Good