It is so vital to learn medical terminology when going into any kind of healthcare related career path. It is an excellent aid in helping healthcare professionals communicate with one another; but knowing a term itself and being able to break it down and really understand it are two different things. Too many people come into the healthcare world thinking they can just memorize individual terms and succeed. What they may not realize, is that being able to break down your words is so much more efficient and helpful in the long run. For example, let’s say a healthcare professional taught themselves medical terminology just by memorizing terms and was trying to update a patient chart that requires a term that they are not familiar with and they
