Would you like to understand what the doctors on Grey's Anatomy are talking about? Want to have a better understanding of the terminology used in your anatomy or physiology course?

Phar 1002 is an introductory 1000-level course with a focus on analyzing and building words.

Phar 5201 is an advanced course presuming a basic knowledge of human anatomy and physiology. In addition to analyzing and building words, you will learn to apply them when documenting and reporting patient care procedures. You will also learn about the various health care fields.

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Course description
These courses are designed to increase your medical vocabulary by over 2500 words! Don’t be intimidated—you won’t be memorizing that many new words. These courses are self-study, have no prerequisites, and use programmed learning textbooks that are accompanied with supplemental online study aids (available via WebVista). Both of the courses are two credits and include only five exams (one being the final exam) that you can take during our flexible testing times over an eight week period.

What do students think?
These popular courses have been offered by our office since spring 2001.

Phar 1002
100% of the students in the Summer 2009 course stated that they would recommend this course to a friend!

Past students have made the following comments:

• I learned a lot in this class and really feel like I gained some useful knowledge in terms of medical terminology.
• I think the overall course was really good. I learned a lot from this course and will be very helpful when communicating with a medical profession.
• I loved this course. I have always been interested in how these words came to be, and now I have the knowledge to piece together and take apart many words in our language.
• I feel so much more knowledgeable now whenever I hear diseases or treatments mentioned because I can actually understand what it is!
• I would recommend this course for anyone going into any medical or science related course. It helped me a lot in understanding medical/scientific conversation and discussions my professors and other professionals had.
• I really like how easy it was for me to work at my own pace to fit it in with other schooling and work.
• I loved the course and content, I learned a lot more than expected and liked the pace and set-up.
• I was so excited every time I studied because it made me think more and more about getting into medical school.
• I have had this class described to me from other students as the class to take to understand House better
• I truly enjoyed taking this course, and I learned so much more than I had ever anticipated. Now I can understand what they are saying on the medical shows such as Grey's Anatomy. Also learning the prefixes, roots, and suffixes allowed me to apply the learned terminology to words outside the medical field and figure out words I didn't recognize.

Phar 5201
100% of the students in the Summer 2009 course stating that they would recommend this course to a friend!

Past students have made the following comments:

• A good review of many terms that we will encounter daily.
• I really enjoyed the course because I feel it will be useful in my future profession.
• Thank you for the great experience!  I enjoyed the course. 

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