Suitable for premedical students, nursing students, medical secretaries, transcriptionists, and allied health students, in fact anyone with an interest in the language of medicine or medical education. If you are about to go to medical school or nursing college be one step ahead and impress your new tutors. If you are a doctor, nurse or secretary learning English, studying the course will enhance your listening, writing and spelling skills.

Invaluable revision for all health care courses including: City & Guilds (AMSPAR) Certificate in Medical Terminology at Levels 2 and 3, CMA / AAMA (American Association of Medical Assistants Medical Terminology Exam), SQA Medical Terminology and NHS training courses.

The self-teaching, 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 twenty-four units are available using either American English or British English medical terms. Each unit contains interactive exercises that enable you to learn and practise: word analysis, matching words and definitions, dictation, spelling and building medical words using prefixes, suffixes and combining forms of roots. You can test your knowledge using flashcards and self-assessment exercises at the end of each unit.

Built into each unit are clear, simple anatomical diagrams and moving animations to enhance your understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the human body; these enable you to relate medical terms to the human body.