Jul 04, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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OAT 1420 - Medical Terminology for Administrative Professionals
Study of the structure and usage of medical words and terms as related to medical billing and coding. Emphasis on spelling and defining commonly used medical terminology including prefixes, suffixes, root words, plural forms, special endings, abbreviations, symbols, and their combining forms.
Credit Hours: 2
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 2.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Acquire a basic foundation in medical terminology that will lead to recognizing thousands of medical terms in the realm of billing and coding.
- Be familiar with the principal fields of medicine and allied health.
- Categorize medical terms as diagnostic, anatomical, surgical, radiological, or therapeutic.
- Demonstrate an understanding of basic human anatomy and physiology, and correlate this understanding with medical terminology.
- Recognize that the meaning of complex medical terms can be derived by analysis of simpler components.
- State the meaning of common medical abbreviations and acronyms.
- Understand basic principal terms used in pharmacology.
- Understand many terms related to anatomy, pathology, surgical operations, diagnostic, and therapeutic procedures.
- Understand the need for exactness (spelling and handwriting) in medical vocabulary and correspondence via dictation and transcription.
- Use a word-building system to write medical terms in singular and plural form.
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