Copyright: 2025

Virginia Assignment Code: 8384

Suggested Grade Level: 10, 11, 12

Duration: 18 weeks

Hours: 70

Credits: 0.5

Prerequisites: None

CTSO: HOSA-Future Health Professionals

Course Description:

Medical Terminology is designed to help students learn common medical terms essential for a career in health care. Topics are presented in logical order, beginning with each body system's anatomy and physiology, progressing through pathology, lab tests, and clinical procedures, and rounding out with therapeutic interventions and pharmacology. Students learn concepts, terms, and abbreviations for each topic. Contextual instruction and student participation in co-curricular career and technical student organization (CTSO) activities will develop leadership, interpersonal, and career skills. High-quality work-based learning (HQWBL) will provide experiential learning opportunities related to students' career goals and/or interests, integrated with instruction, and performed in partnership with local businesses and organizations.

Credentials, Course Sequences, and Career Clusters/Pathways can be found here:

https://www.cteresource.org/career-clusters/health-science/19150/