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Medical Terminology is an Honors course at Riverside High School. We utilize the book (Medical Terminology for Health Professions), Dean Vaughn videos and the use of flash cards to help us navigate the language of medicine!
The Dept of Education Course : Syllabus
NEW: State Standards
Remember the late work policy when completing work for this HONORS course!
-20 points off per day and on the 5th day it's a zero.
You will need to be prepared to keep up with physical flash cards that we make all year long!
Writing out medical terminology flashcards can be a really effective learning strategy, especially because med term requires students to remember a large amount of vocabulary, spelling, meaning, and word parts.
Here are some of the biggest benefits:
✍️ Active learning: Writing the term and definition requires students to actively process the information rather than simply looking at it.
🧠 Strengthens memory: Handwriting can help students encode information more deeply and create another pathway for recalling the term later.
🔤 Reinforces spelling: In medical terminology, spelling matters. Writing terms repeatedly helps students become familiar with unusual prefixes, suffixes, and roots.
🧩 Helps students see patterns: When students write terms such as cardiology, cardiologist, and cardiomyopathy, they begin to recognize cardi/o = heart and understand how word parts combine.
👀 Connects multiple forms of learning: Students see the word, say it, write it, and eventually recall it. That gives them multiple ways to access the information.
🔄 Creates a study tool: The cards become something students can actually use for retrieval practice instead of just completing an assignment and putting it away.
💡 Encourages productive struggle: Having students make the cards themselves means they have to decide what information is important rather than simply receiving a completed set.
📚 Supports cumulative learning: Students can keep their cards and use them to review previous units throughout the semester.
Write → Say → Cover → Recall → Check → Repeat
“Making the flashcards is not the studying. Making them helps you learn the information; using them to retrieve the information is where the real studying happens.”
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