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Medical terminology can be a daunting course for students with a seemingly endless list of words to memorize. Medical Terminology: Active Learning Through Case Studies provides a unique approach and considers medical words in terms of common combining forms, prefixes, and suffixes to determine meaning in context. Students feel empowered when they realize they have the knowledge to dissect a long, complicated medical term into simpler parts to determine its meaning. The text is organized by body system with related terms describing anatomical features, pathologies, and procedures grouped together in story form for easy recall. While engaging students with real-world stories and medical records to help learn medical terms is not unique, having a book with such a large collection of these cases is novel. The book is designed to provide instructors with a framework for students to apply their medical terminology knowledge as part of the learning process. The case studies have been designed as classroom activities for a semester-long medical terminology course and can also be integrated into course assessments or assigned for review and reinforcement. Every new print copy includes Navigate Advantage Access that unlocks a complete, interactive eBook, student practice activities, learning analytics reporting tools, and more! Features: Ten case studies per chapter, and over 100 in total, organized by increasing complexity from Standard to Advanced, giving instructors the ability to assign cases based on the level of their students Consumable working text that allows students to create their own study book by keeping notes directly in the book Slide-based teaching presentations that include an origins slide, which reveal the etymology of highly relevant, unique, or complicated terms to provide students with context and scaffold the case content

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Joan-Beth Gow is a professor of biology in the Health Science Program at Anna Maria College in Paxton, MA. She has more than 20 years of experience teaching courses such as biology, microbiology, medical terminology, and genetics to science and non-science majors. Dr. Gow received her B.A. in biology from Colby College in Waterville, ME, and a Ph.D. in biology from Clark University in Worcester, MA. She is passionate about using engaging pedagogies in the classroom and relies heavily on case-based teaching to support active learning. She has been an author and co-author on several case studies published with the National Center for Case Study Teaching in the Sciences and has presented at multiple conferences promoting active learning. Arne Christensen is an assistant professor in the Department of Biology at Westfield State University in Westfield, MA. Dr. Christensen received his B.S. in Biology and Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Biology from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Following graduate school, he spent several years doing postdoctoral research in the area of osmoregulatory physiology at the Conte Anadromous Fish Research Center. His research background is in physiology and cell biology, and he has 11 years of experience teaching human anatomy and physiology, cell biology, and other courses in the biological sciences.

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