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My Career Teaching Medical Terminology

July 16, 2019 Written by Myrna LaFleur Brooks

Exploring Medical Language Is Going Into Its 11th Edition, A Time To Look Back!

It’s hard to believe. I have had a 49-year relationship with medical terminology. Here is a look back on how teaching and writing about it became a life-long passion.

Medical Terminology TextbooksIt all started in 1970.

That was the year I received my first course load assignment as a new health science faculty member at GateWay Community College in Phoenix, Arizona.

My Division Chair said,

“You will be teaching a two-credit medical terminology course as part of your teaching load for the fall semester.

Have you had experience teaching medical terminology?”

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