online word root/medical terminology course

[gracietiger]

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It seems that most people have suggested to me that anatomy is not as useful as other upper division bios for preparing for vet school, but that a greek and latin roots or medical terminology course would be very useful. I am wondering if anyone has taken or knows of any online greek/latin root courses??

 

[turquoisewolves]

Not entirely sure what you are looking for.....but about 7 years ago I took this medical terminology class on-campus at a community college that is now being offered online from Colorado Community College Online (ccconline.org).
The class to search for is HPR178: Seminar: Medical Terminology.

I took it just for fun at the time being a senior in high school knowing that I wanted to pursue the medical profession and it actually ended up getting me a job as a medical transcriptionist for years...now I bet it comes in handy for vet school.

 

[drwildlife]

Silly question probably but, would it be worth it to take a medical terminology course? At my university, it's just a general course (not for any certain health field but, probably geared more towards nursing.)


Course Description -

"Required for the BS in health sciences, emphasis in health services administration. Fundamentals of medical etymology and abbreviations as a basis for building a professional vocabulary. Independent study. Fall, spring.
1.000 Credit hours "

 

[superkelpie]

Honestly, if you don't need the course credit, I think learning through a medterm book > taking an online course where you have to spend money AND get a book.
Trust me, at my high school we have to take two years of medical terminology and the only way I learned it was through reading the book. The teacher only repeated the info. Also, most of medterm was memorizing word parts, something you definitely don't need a teacher for. Of course, being a Greek Derivatives specialist doesn't hurt either 😀
And books usually come with CD's to do practice quizzes/tests, so that could be an interactive part you would gain through taking a course.

 

[drwildlife]

I love how I've sort of hijacked this thread for the time being...even if it does cover the same topic 😀

The only thing I'm concerned about is veterinary schools seeing it on my transcript and seeing I took the "extra step" to take a non-required course which would apply to vet school. On a grade topic, if I made an A in it, it would only raise my GPA .001 points....making it not really worth it on that end.

 

[turquoisewolves]

drwildlife
IMHO I would say that this would be one of the classes that would just leave a neutral impression to adcoms. If you were looking to go "above and beyond" required course work it would probably be a better value of $$$ if you took an upper level bio... I would say the med term class would just be something that a person would do for fun...and like someone else pointed out, probably even be cheaper to just get the books, like learning a new language. For me it was just kind of luck how it all panned out and ended up giving me job opportunities but if I was at the point I am now or even in the last couple of years with working just on my vet application, I don't think I would have bothered with it.
Just my thoughts......

 

[drwildlife]

Oh, it's fine! Thoughts are what I'm looking for 🙂 I'd much rather be concentrating on my upper levels I have this coming semester than some course which barely even gives me credit. Thanks.