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Successful completion of any certifying exam in the health field will depend on mastery of medical terminology.
If you work in a medical office or with people in the medical field, if you have knowlege of medical terms you can understand what your peers are talking about. If you are a nurse, medical assistant etc. you can "translate" what a doctor diagnosed a patient with to the patient in terms that they can understand.
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Without medical terminology a medical assistant would not know what their colleagues are talking about when they give you information on a patient, they would not be able to write in a chart and would not have an overall basic understanding in medicine, this is the basis of the language in medicine, that's why it is essential. It is one of the important language people in the medical facilities should learn as without it, communication and the every day process of the facility just wont work.Medical assistants, as well as many other disciplines that is in the medical field, use medical terminology in documenting in the patient's medical records, in medical reports to the tending physician, in filling out many forms required by Medicare, Medicaid, and private medical insurance companies, etc. They also use this to communicate with other medical professionals. The reason for using medical terminology instead of conversational language is because conversational language have different meanings for words and phrases. In medicine it is very important to be able to understand what is being said/written. Medical terminology used Latin language because it is a dead language and will never change which means the meaning of medical terms will always be the same. There is less confusing then using conversational language which changes from day to dayThey use the terminology for charting patients condition's communicate with doctors and pharmacists. It is extremely important to know medical terminology when working in the medical field. Medical assistants, as well as many other disciplines that is in the medical field, use medical terminology in documenting in the patient's medical records, in medical reports to the tending physician, in filling out many forms required by Medicare, Medicaid, and private medical insurance companies, etc. They also use this to communicate with other medical professionals. The reason for using medical terminology instead of conversational language is because conversational language have different meanings for words and phrases. In medicine it is very important to be able to understand what is being said/written. Medical terminology used Latin language because it is a dead language and will never change which means the meaning of medical terms will always be the same. There is less confusing then using conversational language which changes from day to day
Yes, medical administrative assistants and transcriptionists have to use medical terminology regularly. A knowledge of this field will assist them in creating reports, forwarding calls appropriately, and completing billing statements.
For jobs in the medical sales field you will want some background in medical terminology as well as a working knowledge of the products you will be selling and what they are used for.
A person who specializes in a particular field of science or study.
It is as important as medical field
yes.
Medical terminology provides for a special language that all in the medical field understand. Even people who speak other languages understand exactly what others are saying. It is a language that you will have to learn if you want to speak to others in your field. Doctors like it if you can understand what they are saying. They seem to have problems explaining things otherwise to their patients.
Yes they are. But they require a considerable bit of knowledge in medical terminology to be able to understand them because they are written for professionals in the medical field. The ones that are the most technical are called abstracts and are the most reliable.