Maricopa Community Colleges MTR280 20042-99999

Official Course Description: MCCCD Approval: 11-25-2003
MTR280 2004 Spring – 2011 Summer II	LEC 2.0 Credit(s) 2.0 Period(s) 2.0 Load Occ
Certified Medical Transcription Exam Review
Medical terminology review, including prefixes, suffixes, combining forms, word roots, plural forms, medical abbreviations, acronyms, eponyms, antonyms, and homonyms. Review of punctuation and grammar rules, common homonyms, synonyms and antonyms. Anatomy and physiology review including structure and function of body organs and systems. Common disease processes. Purpose and content of the healthcare records. Prerequisites: Completion of a recognized medical transcription program or a minimum of one-year work experience as a medical transcriptionist.

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MCCCD Official Course Competencies:

MTR280 2004 Spring – 2011 Summer II	Certified Medical Transcription Exam Review

1.	Define medical terms including word roots, prefixes and suffixes in oral and written presentations. (I)
2.	Analyze diagnostic, symptomatic, clinical and surgical terms including common abbreviations, acronyms, eponyms and homonyms. (I)
3.	Name, locate and spell medical terms and abbreviations used to describe general structures and functions of the human body. (I)
4.	Define parts of speech. (II)
5.	Recognize sentence elements, patterns, and types. (II)
6.	Identify simple, compound, and complex sentences. (II)
7.	Punctuate sentences using the correct grammatical symbols. (II)
8.	Describe the structural organization of the body. (III)
9.	Describe the structure and function of the integumentary, musculoskeletal, nervous, endocrine, cardiovascular, lymphatic, respiratory, digestive, urinary, and reproductive systems. (III)
10.	Describe structural, functional, and normal variants in the body that may produce disease. (IV)
11.	Describe the common physiologic effects of disease on the body. (IV)
12.	Describe the treatment and therapy for specific disease processes. (IV)
13.	Describe the origin, uses, content and format of specific types of health records. (V)

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MCCCD Official Course Outline:

MTR280 2004 Spring – 2011 Summer II	Certified Medical Transcription Exam Review

I. Medical Terminology

A. prefixes

B. suffixes

C. combining forms

D. word roots

E. plural forms

F. abbreviations

G. acronyms

H. eponyms

I. antonyms

J. homonyms

II. Elements of Language

A. Punctuation including periods, commas, semicolons, colons, hyphens

B. Grammar rules

C. Sentence structure

D. Paragraph structure

III. Anatomy and Physiology

A. System structure and function of cells and tissues

1. circulatory

2. digestive

3. endocrine

4. integumentary

5. lymphatic

6. muscular

7. nervous

8. reproductive

9. respiratory

10. sense organs

11. skeletal

12. urinary

B. Structure and function of organs and systems

1. circulatory

2. digestive

3. endocrine

4. integumentary

5. lymphatic

6. muscular

7. nervous

8. reproductive

9. respiratory

10. sense organs

11. skeletal

12. urinary

IV. Disease Processes

A. Signs and symptoms of common diseases

1. dermatologic medicine

2. musculoskeletal medicine

3. neurologic medicine

4. psychiatric medicine

5. ophthalmologic medicine

6. otorhinolaryngologic medicine

7. cardiovascular medicine

8. hematologic medicine

9. pulmonary medicine

10. gastrointestinal medicine

11. hepatic and biliary medicine

12. renal and urologic medicine

13. gynecologic and obstretical medicine

14. endocrine medicine

15. infectious disease medicine

16. immunlogic medicine

17. dental and oral medicine

18. nutritional and metabolic medicine

B. Treatment modalities of disease common diseases