MedSpeak medical terminology
* Expert Design
* Graphics to illustrate meaning
* Workbook supports online learning
* Certificate of completion
* Three Months access - only $89.00
About MedSpeak
Our customers have always loved MedSpeak. It's just enough training, not too much and not too little. The design accelerates learning, optimizes retention and engages 100% of the learner's attention.
MedSpeak is a unique, self-paced medical
terminology course. Designed to accelerate learning for employees who
work with medical terminology, or want to pursue a career in the
healthcare or insurance claims industry. The course combines humor,
graphics, a high level of interaction, Spanish/English pronunciation,
and combines repetition with novelty, all to maximize learning. No
special plug-ins or software are required to run the course, just a
Java enabled browser (try the Medspeak
demo
and see).
MedSpeak has twenty lessons, each requiring 15 to 30 minutes to
complete (8-10 hours total), and four review tests, each with 50 terms.
You'll learn over 500 terms and recognize hundreds more with your
familiarity with Latin & Greek roots, prefixes, and suffixes.
The terms include anatomy, medical procedures, and diagnoses. (Reviews
include novel terms never seen before in the lesson to build confidence
and ability in recognizing new words.)
Used by insurance companies, hospitals, medical billers, third party
administrators, government entities, and schools, for more than ten
years, thousands have learned medical terminology this fun and easy
way. The optional MedSpeak Workbook
enhances the online learning.
HOW TO MAXIMIZE YOUR LEARNING
Learning with Medspeak may be a different experience than other types of learning activities you have experienced. Medspeak is designed more like a game than a lesson. To play it, you use all the information it gives you. Unlike other learning activities, Medspeak does not tell you the definitions to the terms and then ask you to remember the terms and fill in the blanks. Medspeak asks you to use everything you’ve learned from reading newspapers, talking to friends, from your own experience in life including visits to the doctor, hospital visits, family illnesses, test taking strategies—everything— to “discover” the meaning of the medical terms.
Of course, Medspeak gives you a lot of help. What will help you more than anything is the roots, prefixes, and suffixes that you have already learned in the course. When you use Medspeak, you will be given a scenario. Here’s an example:
Dr. Dude’s patient fainted and fell down. Dr. Dude wants to test her heart. After the test, what will he look at to see the results?
A. Cardiogram
B. Nephroplasty
C. Arteriogram
To answer this question correctly, you can use every strategy you can think of. You know you have three choices. Break the choices into their word parts: this always makes the right choice more obvious. Choice A is Cardio + gram; Choice B is Nephro + plasty; Choice C is Arterio + gram. If you know the root word for heart, the question is easy. If you don’t know the root word for heart, it’s a little more difficult. Maybe you can surmise that Arterio- looks a lot like Artery and so probably represents Artery, not heart. That eliminates one choice, leaving you with two possibilities. Think not only about the roots, but also about the suffixes. Look at -plasty. Does -plasty sound like a test result? Maybe it sounds familiar. With all the talk these days about plastic surgery, maybe you’d think -plasty sounds similar to plastic. So -plasty wouldn’t lead you to test results. So your best guess is Cardiogram, that is Cardio + gram. You select Choice A and you find that you are correct. Cardio- means heart; -gram means a written record. You can see how a written record would allow you to see the test results.