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Medical Terminology
Prepare students for future careers in healthcare by building a foundation in medical knowledge! Students will learn how to speak the language of medicine, explore how the body works, understand common conditions, and discover the wide range of careers in the medical field—all through interactive games, real-world scenarios, and engaging activities.
Featured Engagement Activities
Each Nucleus course features engagement-optimized activities, including real-world simulations, real technology tools, and collaborative group activities in a gamified classroom setting. Highlights of some of our engaging activities for the Medical Terminology course include:
Interactive Medical Scenarios
Students work with in-class partners or AI-powered chatbots to make decisions as medical providers would in real-life clinical scenarios. Students are presented with a hypothetical patient scenario and asked to make recommendations for the patient’s care, based on the lesson materials. Students walk away with a greater understanding of how medical professionals diagnose, treat, and manage medical conditions!
Smart Squares
In this interactive game, students must answer questions to connect spaces on a digital game board, similar to BINGO. Students “spin” and select a number on the game board, revealing a question that tests the students’ knowledge of medical terminology. The square is checked for correct answers, until a student completes a line on the board the fastest to win!
Medical Image Labeling
Students must identify and correctly label complex illustrations depicting different components or systems in the human body, drawing from the knowledge they gained during the lesson, and reinforcing their familiarity with medical terms and correct anatomical positioning!
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MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY
Course Overview
In this 27-module course, students will gain a foundational understanding of medical terms, the basic processes of bodily systems, and explore potential careers in medicine. There are three sections in this course:
SECTION I
Intro to Medical Terminology
In section I, students will gain a basic understanding of general medical terminology and abbreviations, and learn how they are used in healthcare. Topics covered include:
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Intro to Medical Terminology
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Medical Abbreviations and Acronyms
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Body Planes, Directions, and Cavities
SECTION II
Human Body Systems
In section II, students learn the terminology and processes of the major anatomical systems that compose the human body and study common diseases, disorders, and conditions that affect body systems. Topics include:
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Integumentary System
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Skeletal and Muscular Systems
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Nervous System
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Endocrine System
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Cardiovascular and Respiratory Systems
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Blood
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Immune System
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Lymphatic System
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Digestive and Urinary Systems
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Male and Female Reproductive Systems
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Special Senses: Hearing, Sight, Smell, Taste and Touch
SECTION III
Medical Diseases, Treatments, and Careers
In section III, students will consider some of the ethical and legal challenges that medical professionals face and explore a wide number of medical careers, including the diseases they treat and procedures they utilize. Key topics include:
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Pathology
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Infectious Diseases
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Oncology
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Emergency Medicine and Trauma
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Surgical
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Pharmacology
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Psychiatric and Mental Health
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Medical Ethics, Communication, and Legal Terminology