Course Purpose and Evaluation

This course will instruct the learner in commonly used word roots, prefixes, and suffixes relevant to health-care professions, as well as commonly used abbreviations and acronyms. The learner will build a substantial working vocabulary of medical terms in the areas of prenatal, labor and birth, postpartum, and newborn care. The learner will understand theory of legal standards of charting, and apply

these principles when charting in medical documents.

SPECIFIC LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

1. Common health-related word roots, prefixes and suffixes

2. Rules for Medical terminology combining word segments (parts to whole) and decoding complete terms (whole to parts)

according to modern conventions

3. Specific medical terminology relevant to midwifery care

4. Common abbreviations and acronyms used in medical records, charts, and other related documents associated with

reproductive and general health care

5. Guidelines for medical documentation/charting

6. Legal standards of medical charting

7. Obtaining/documenting medical history, antepartum, intrapartum, postpartum, newborn care (Midwives College of Utah, 2021-e, p. 3)

Midwives College of Utah. (2021-e). HLTH 1010: Medical terminology and charting student syllabus. Midwives College of Utah Midwifing Midwives, 3–4. https://midwifery.instructure.com/courses/2712/files/313903?wrap=1