Mastering Healthcare Terminology

This multidimensional online course supplement enhances students' understanding of medical terminology through an exciting range of visual, auditory, and interactive elements that amplify text content, synthesize concepts, reinforce learning, and demonstrate the practical applications of medical language. Interactive tools reinforce learning, featuring a variety of student and instructor communications options, interactive exercises, illustrations, animations and slide shows with audio narration, and instructor administrative tools. Students may log on, complete lessons, and take quizzes and exams online the program records their results! Using the course management system (WebCT or Blackboard), instructors can tailor the program's content to the specific needs of their course. Partnered with Shiland's Mastering Healthcare Terminology, it offers greater learning opportunities and flexibility for self-study, as a supplement to lecture-format classes, or as a distance learning course via the Internet. *Notice to Customer* This is an instructor-led tool, and can only be accessed once an instructor establishes a course instance. Customers who order this online product will receive a booklet that contains the access code to the course in 5 to 7 business days. Extensive art program boasts over 650 disease and disorder illustrations, over 450 anatomical illustrations, and many more original drawings and graphics on each screen than the textbook alone provides. Over 50 animations and slide shows with audio narration bring concepts to life and demonstrate anatomic and physiologic principles and processes. Pedagogical iconsFactoid, NetWork, Learning Links, and Chat Roompromote interactive learning and "link" students to the instructor and to each other. Quizzing and post-testing with easy instructor monitoring encourage students to evaluate their mastery of module content by completing the Self-Mastery Quiz at the end of each module before taking the Self-Mastery Exam. The exam is automatically scored and reported to the instructor. Embedded links direct students to related areas and to other Elsevier Science resources for further study. An extensive glossary of over 4,000 terms listed in alphabetical order enable the student to click on a term to see the definition and hear it pronounced. Hyperlinked terms within the text connect the student to the glossary with audio pronunciations of terms so the student can hear the terms pronounced correctly. WebCT and Blackboard software includes real-time chat, class calendars, e-mail connections, bulletin board, and instructor syllabus, offering a variety of student and instructor communications options and instructor administrative tools. Unique interactive exercises include word building, spelling, pronunciation, matching, labeling, multiple choice, true or false, and more. Each lesson concludes with a review that features interactive exercises for reinforced learning and self-assessment. A threaded case study is introduced at the beginning of each module and periodically revisited throughout each lesson, designed to hold students' interest, illustrate real-world scenarios, and motivate students to finish the module so they can "see how the story ends."Shiland, Betsy J. is the author of 'Mastering Healthcare Terminology', published 2003 under ISBN 9780323019293 and ISBN 0323019293.