Medical Language : Immerse Yourself

Medical Language: Immerse Yourself is grounded in immersive language learning. Rather than memorize vocabulary, you''ll experience the sights and sounds of health care as you listen, speak, write, examine and think. To reinforce learning, the text offers a greater quantity and variety of exercises than any other publication of its kind.

Hands-on practice offers practical exposure to real-world healthcare tasks. Chapter review exercises include analysis of real medical reports, as well as role-play activities prompting you to describe a patient''s condition using medical language.

Organized by medical specialty, the 5th Edition has been regrouped into 15 chapters designed for a 16-week course. Each chapter now consists of 5 sections correlated with learning outcomes. Practice Laps at the end of each section gauge your comprehension by learning outcome.

For courses in medical terminology.

An immersive deep-dive into medical terminology

Medical Language: Immerse Yourself is grounded in immersive language-learning. Rather than memorize vocabulary, students experience the sights and sounds of health care as they listen, speak, write, examine and think. To reinforce learning, the text offers a greater quantity and variety of exercises than any other publication of its kind.

Organized by medical specialty, the 5th Edition has been regrouped into 15 chapters designed for a 16-week course. Each chapter now consists of 5 sections correlated with learning outcomes. Practice Laps at the end of each section gauge students'' competency by learning outcome.

Hallmark features of this title

Hands-on practice

• Chapter review exercises offer practical insight into real healthcare tasks. Exercises include analysis of real medical reports, as well as role-play activities prompting students to describe a patient''s condition using medical language.
• Word-building exercises throughout chapters help students divide and build medical words, form plurals and adjectives of medical nouns, and distinguish between the meanings of sound­alike terms.

Resources and visual aids

• A glossary of medical abbreviations, acronyms and short forms reflect the most up-to-date medical terminology.
• A Career Focus section in each chapter introduces students to a healthcare practitioner who uses the medical terminology they''ve just read about.

New and updated features of this title

New organization around learning outcomes

• REVISED: Each chapter now consists of 5 sections correlated with learning outcomes. These new sections are anatomy; physiology; diseases; laboratory, diagnostic and radiologic procedures; and medical procedures, drugs and surgical procedures.
• NEW: A new design reinforces the new chapter structure. Appealing and uncluttered, it includes an abundance of rich images and enough white space for note-taking.

Learning aids

• NEW: Practice Laps gauge students'' mastery of the content they''ve just read before they move on to the next learning outcome.
• UPDATED: An abundance of medically accurate illustrations and photographs picture real patients and real health professionals in real healthcare settings. These images double as labeling activities.

Revisions for clarity

• REVISED: A reorganized Appendix A now combines all word parts and their meanings in alphabetical order to ease searches. Types of words parts (combining form, prefix or suffix) are distinguished by color-shading of rows.
• REVISED: Enhancements to all the text and illustrations of the anatomy and physiology sections ease understanding of complex structures and functions.