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I am thinking of taking a class at the local community college, Medical Terminology.
Have you taken the course and how much has it helped you in your career in the medical field?
Alone, the class is worthless. If you're not in the healthcare field (which if you were you would have taken it), you will need a degree of some sort to work in patient care (or a license for that matter).
Working for a degree or certification in medicine, it is paramount to success. You won't know that an esophagogastoduodenoscopy is a fancy word for swallowing a camera.
Anywhere working with the medical field it should and probably is required.
Also, I am in the health care field and I never had to take a class like that. For some programs it's a waste of time. I know it's a requirement for other programs, usually certificate programs, and it's usually for people who otherwise have little to no medical knowledge.
Ok, The field I am trying to enter does not require it but my back up plan might require it. Thanks. They are both in the health care field.
Well if you are working anything related to healthcare I strongly advise taking it. It's incredibly helpful to understand the scope of what you're dealing with.
as a current nursing student Id say its helpful but not required, that is the program i am in does not specfically require you to take it, but they dont discourage it either. No harm in it i say
If you want to work in a medical setting, it is a plus on your resume. Companies that have their own on the job training programs like dialysis techs, pharmacy techs, opticians, medical receptionists, medical billers and collectors, and medical administrative assistants all require medical terminology, with or without a certificate or degree.
If you take it with several other courses, especially anatomy and physiology, then it's great. Like stated above, it's worthless alone without other foundational knowledge to give contextual understanding for implementation.
Alone, the class is worthless. If you're not in the healthcare field (which if you were you would have taken it), you will need a degree of some sort to work in patient care (or a license for that matter).
Working for a degree or certification in medicine, it is paramount to success. You won't know that an esophagogastoduodenoscopy is a fancy word for swallowing a camera.
Anywhere working with the medical field it should and probably is required.
and had you taken a course you would have caught the misspelling: esophagogastroduodenoscopy
Many undergraduate healthcare programs require at most a basic medical terminology course, probably so that people will not misspell words or will be able to pronounce terms without sounding uneducated.
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