EMS 150 Medical Math & Medical Terminology (3 credits)
Course Description
This course provides instruction in various methods of medical drug calculations and dosing of medications commonly utilized in emergency settings, as well as an introduction to medical terminology.
Course Content
Medical dosage calculation
Dosage conversion calculation
Mathematical functions involving fractions, decimals, and whole numbers
Dosage calculation of medications commonly used in emergency settings
Term building with prefixes, suffixes, and root words
Formation of nouns, adjectives, and plurals of medical terms
Student Outcomes
1. Summarize the etymologies of medical terms with regards to root words, prefixes, and suffixes.
2. Apply basic medical vocabulary to emergency medical services.
3. Solve basic mathematical problems and dosage calculations emergency medical services personnel face using dimensional analysis, fractional and decimal operations, fractional/decimal conversions, percentages, ratios, proportions, simple algebraic functions as well as metric conversions.
Degree Outcomes
Program Outcome: Access and utilize knowledge necessary to conduct a patient evaluation and administer emergency treatment short of those rendered by advanced life support personnel.
Critical, Creative, and Reflective Thinking: Graduates will evaluate, analyze, synthesize, and generate ideas; construct informed, meaningful, and justifiable conclusions; and process feelings, beliefs, biases, strengths, and weaknesses as they relate to their thinking, decisions, and creations.
Lecture Contact Hours 30
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