Medical Language: Immerse Yourself, 4th edition

Medical Language: Immerse Yourself                                                             

• Provides unsurpassed hands-on practice to reinforce learning.
  • This book provides more exercises (and more types of exercises) than any other book.
  • Exercises are presented both within chapters and at the end of chapters to give students plenty of opportunities to practice what they have read.
  • UPDATED: The new Answer Key format allows instructors to use any exercise as a gradable homework assignment. While instructors have access to the full Answer Key, students can only view every other answer.

• UPDATED: Supports visual learning through an extraordinary collection of vibrant images. Large, colorful, illustrations and photos bring medical language to life. This edition includes new and updated medically-realistic illustrations and medical photos that showcase real people in real healthcare settings.
• Organizes content the way students want to learn and teachers want to teach. As 75% of instructors have requested, this book is organized around medical specialties, rather than body systems.
• UPDATED: Provides opportunities for students to use medical terminology through realistic activities. Every chapter includes an activity that challenges students to analyze actual medical reports. This edition includes additional medical reports and end-of-chapter questions.
• Links medical terminology to real healthcare careers. Career Focus Sections in every chapter introduce students to a healthcare practitioner who utilizes the medical terminology they have just learned.
• Helps students master crucial word-building skills. Multiple features focus on teaching word building, including extensive coverage of analyzing combining forms, suffixes, and prefixes throughout each chapter. Enhancements to this edition include:
• UPDATED: Review exercises that give students more practice with dividing and building medical words
• NEW: Exercises that help students form the plurals and adjectives of medical nouns
• NEW: Exercises that help students research the meaning of confusing sound-alike medical terms
• UPDATED: Word part meanings are now alphabetized for easier memorization
• Teaches crucial pathophysiology vocabulary visually, for more effective learning. Diseases are introduced with easy-to-understand visuals linking them directly to relevant terminology.
• Organizes information consistently to facilitate learning. To promote student success, each chapter is organized into clearly defined, easy-to-read sections. Section enhancements include:
  • NEW: Numbered learning outcomes that focus students on their learning goals. To help instructors assign reading and homework, their numbers are correlated to all parts of the text and to all review exercises.
  • UPDATED: Abbreviations and drug names that reflect the latest terminology and medications.
• Supports teaching and learning with interesting, readymade lecture materials. Instructors can supplement their lecture using a fully-loaded PowerPoint presentation system that includes a multitude of illustrations and photographs, animations, and embedded, real-life medical videos. Additionally, author-narrated Dynamic Lectures are available to accompany the PowerPoints—students in online courses will find these lectures particularly helpful.

Also available with MyMedicalTerminologyLab™

MyMedicalTerminologyLab is an online homework, tutorial, and assessment program designed to work with this text to engage students and improve results. Within its structured environment, students practice what they learn, test their understanding, and pursue a personalized study plan that helps them better absorb course material and understand difficult concepts. No matter their learning style, students will build a solid foundation of medical language through MyMedicalTerminologyLab’s interactive games, adaptive Dynamic Study Modules, and author-narrated lectures.

• Enables personalized learning at scale. Not every student learns the same way and at the same rate. And now, thanks to advances in adaptive learning technology, you no longer have to teach as if they do. The Dynamic Study Modules in MyMedicalTerminologyLab assess student performance and activity in real time and, using data and analytics, personalize content to reinforce concepts that target each student's strengths and weaknesses.
• Makes learning medical language fun! Students learn better when they are engaged. To make learning medical language fun, each chapter inside MyMedicalTerminologyLab has a variety of Interactive Study Games that focus on spelling, pronunciation, A&P, and word building. Students and instructors alike report that these fun games increase students’ medical vocabulary.
• Supplements your lectures. Offer your students an exceptional lecture component to your course with our book-specific, narrated Guided Lectures. Students can use these lectures to reinforce correct pronunciation of medical terms, prepare for class, or for review after class.
• Addresses varied skill levels. Self-Paced Study Modules are engaging tutorials that provide an overview of the content presented in each chapter. These modules are perfect for an interactive, self-paced review of the chapter.

Medical Language: Immerse Yourself                                                                 

• Provides unsurpassed hands-on practice to reinforce learning.
• The new Answer Key format allows instructors to use any exercise as a gradable homework assignment. While instructors have access to the full Answer Key, students can only view every other answer.
• Supports visual learning through an extraordinary collection of vibrant images. This edition includes new and updated medically-realistic illustrations and medical photos that showcase real people in real healthcare settings.
• Provides opportunities for students to use medical terminology through realistic activities. Every chapter includes an activity that challenges students to analyze actual medical reports. This edition includes additional medical reports and end-of-chapter questions.
• Helps students master crucial word-building skills. Multiple features focus on teaching word building.
• Enhancements to this edition include:
• Word part meanings are now alphabetized for easier memorization
• Updated review exercises that give students more practice with dividing and building medical words
• New exercises that help students form the plurals and adjectives of medical nouns
• New exercises that help students research the meaning of confusing sound-alike medical
• Numbered learning outcomes that focus students on their learning goals. To help instructors assign reading and homework, their numbers are correlated to all parts of the text and to all review exercises.
• Abbreviations and drug names that reflect the latest terminology and medications.