Check out this developing site dedicated to medical education. Try the free interactive medical terminology exercises and this month's free section on the Digestive System, if you like the style of learning join the full on-line course.

Suitable for medical students, nursing students, medical secretaries. AMSPAR exam revision, SQA medical terminology revision and allied health students in fact anyone with an interest in the language of medicine. If you are about to go to medical school or nursing college be one step ahead and impress your new tutors. If you are already a doctor or nurse whose first language is not English, studying the course will enhance your listening, writing and spelling skills.

The interactive course is based on An Introduction to Medical Terminology for Health Care and Pocket Medical Terminology by Andrew R Hutton produced in Edinburgh for Elsevier Ltd. All units are available using either American English or British English medical terms. Each unit contains interactive exercises that enable you to learn and practise: anatomical position, dictation, spelling, word analysis, matching words and definitions, and building medical words. You can test your knowledge using flashcards and self-assessment exercises at the end of each unit. Built into each unit are moving animations that enhance basic understanding of anatomy and physiology enabling you to relate medical terms to the human body.

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This is now the cheapest, fully-interactive, on-line course costing only £20 or $40!

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