I recently got the news that there weren't enough students to fill my section for my class. There are 4 sections of Medical Terminology and the first two filled right up. Looks like I have the quarter off which will allow me to become better acquainted with the whole process, the materials, the website and all the other building blocks that will help me do my job well. I'm also contacting other instructors to see if we can offer encouragement to one another and share information to make us better teachers. I got my books and CDs in the mail and have been reviewing the material. Some of it is surprising. For instance, if a brain surgeon drills a hole in the cranium, what is the correct terminology to describe the hole? You might come up with words such as trephination, foramen, sinus, or even cranial access. The correct answer is "burr hole" which sounds like a colloquialism. However, that is the term that we are expected to use so I'll file it away. As usual, I'll keep you posted.
April 3, 2006 at 1:27 am
Bummer! Hopefully next time! I really need to take a medical terminology class. Especially if we stay here another year. I don’t understand at least 1/4 – 1/2 of what the hospital staff are saying!!
K
April 9, 2006 at 6:06 pm
And I always thought a “burr hole” was where somebody fell through the ice on a frozen pond. Silly me.
I’m sure your extra prep time will prepare you that much more for when they do have a class for you.
February 16, 2007 at 7:09 am
Bush goes ballistic about other countries being evil and dangerous, because they have weapons of mass destruction. But, he insists on building up even a more deadly supply of nuclear arms right here in the US. What do you think? How does that work in a democracy again? How does being more threatening make us more likeable?Isn’t the country with
the most weapons the biggest threat to the rest of the world? When one country is the biggest threat to the rest of the world, isn’t that likely to be the most hated country?
Our country is in debt until forever, we don’t have jobs, and we live in fear. We have invaded a country and been responsible for thousands of deaths.
We have lost friends and influenced no one. No wonder most of the world thinks we suck. Thanks to what george bush has done to our country during the past three years, we do!