nalie Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 Has anyone taken any online medical terminology course? My college doesn't offer this course but it seems that it would be useful for PA school and good to have on my transcript. Any suggestions??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taotaox1 Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 If you are accruing any sort of reasonable health care experience I would say it was a complete waste of time. No one ever got into PA school because they had an online medical terminology course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marktheshark89 Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 If you are accruing any sort of reasonable health care experience I would say it was a complete waste of time. No one ever got into PA school because they had an online medical terminology course. Some schools require medical terminology as a prerequisite course. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justme Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 some schools also are going to a requirement of 3 hrs of medical terminology and most classes are 1 or 2 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RC36 Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 I'm currently taking one through the University of New England. It's an extremely thorough course and it's 3 credit hours. Kind of expensive, but I think it's worth it if you need the credits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greenmood Posted August 7, 2013 Share Posted August 7, 2013 My school didn't require a medical terminology course but they administered an exam the first week of school in the summer. If you didn't get a certain score you couldn't continue on in the program. To be fair... I asked and was told no one had ever failed. My point stands though: you'll be expected to understand medical terminology regardless of pre-requisites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filbert127 Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 I took BYU's NURS 102 online med term course: http://is.byu.edu/site/courses/description.cfm?title=NURS-102-200 Course was overall quite poor, but I guess you get what you pay for. Not too difficult if you just took A+P, would be horrible if you haven't done it yet. 2 credits, midterm and final must be proctored by a BYU certified proctor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Friction Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 I've never taken an actual medical terminology course outside of what was taught in Corps school, but I'd imagine it would really only help if: 1)You haven't taken an A&P class and 2)If you've never written a SOAP note/patient chart on paper. Unless it was required for a program, I would much rather spend my time on something like online Pharm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted August 18, 2013 Moderator Share Posted August 18, 2013 Medical terminiology is becoming a prereq because applicants are coming in without basic medical experience levels which include medical terminology. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taotaox1 Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 some schools also are going to a requirement of 3 hrs of medical terminology and most classes are 1 or 2 hours. This blows my mind. Why not just require a reasonable number of HCE hours? What a waste of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderator EMEDPA Posted August 18, 2013 Moderator Share Posted August 18, 2013 This blows my mind. Why not just require a reasonable number of HCE hours? What a waste of time. TOTALLY AGREE. we had a medical terminology test the day of the interview along with 2 essays. if you failed them you were done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
taotaox1 Posted August 18, 2013 Share Posted August 18, 2013 We had one the first week of class. It was the easiest thing we did all year. They had a 1 hour review jeopardy game that was more of a get to know you thing than anything else. Spent possibly 2 hours studying? I cannot imagine a full 3 hour college course to memorize some root words........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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