Medical Terminology for Industry Professionals

XBUS 1246

Program Overview

Learn the language of medical terminology and how to read and interpret commonly used medical terms, symbols, and abbreviations. This course covers rules, prefixes, suffixes, roots, combining forms, body systems, and common drug classifications.

This is a great upgrading course for Hospital Unit Clerks, Medical Administrators already working in the industry.

Recommended Prerequisites

• 60% English Language Arts 30-1 or 65% in English Language Arts 30-2 or equivalent
• 50% in Applied Mathematics 10 or equivalent

English Language Proficiency

If English is your second language, acceptable evidence of ELP may be one of the following:

• CLBA 7
• TOEFL internet based test score 71 (overall score)
• IELTS Academic 6.0
• CAEL 60 (overall score)

Course Length

13 Weeks (7 in class 6 out of class assignments)
9 am to 5 pm every second Saturday

Fee

$900.00 + GST

Corporate Delivery

Medical Terminology for Industry Professionals can also be delivered on-site at your location.

Program Calendar

Start Date - April 14, 2012
End Date - July 7, 2012

Room Number - A304

Start Time - 9:00am
End Time - 5:00pm

7 in class sessions
6 out of class sessions

Registration

To register, please fill out the registration form.

For more information: Call 780-644-6470 or email extension@norquest.ca.

Last updated: February 22, 2012