MCOD1045 — Medical Terminology for Medical Coders
MCOD 1045 - Medical Terminology for Medical Coders MCOD 1045 - Medical Terminology for Medical Coders 3 Credits Medical Terminology for Medical Coders focuses on the medical language ? identifying medical term elements, prefixes, suffixes and abbreviations. Construction, definition and pronunciation of terms that relate to the structure and function of the human body, system-related diseases and medical procedures will be addressed. In addition, a variety of medical record reports will be analyzed and interpreted by incorporating the understanding of the medical language. Major Content Areas analyze and interpret patient surgical reports construct and deconstruct medical terms to define medical terms identify and define common prefixes used in the medical language identify and define medical combining forms identify and define common suffixes used in the medical language identify and define common medical abbreviations analyze and interpret patient progress notes Learning