Introduction to Medical Terminology, Classification and Coding

General information
Course Title/Code Introduction to Medical Terminology, Classification and Coding
Degree program BSc. Degree in Health Informatics.
Course Credit Hour 3 Cr. Hrs.
Course code HeIn2022
Year II
Pre-requisite None
Status of the Course Core
Mode of delivery Parallel
Instructor name: Melaku Haile Likka (Ph.D., Assistant Professor)
Instructor’s contact Office: __03________________; Phone: +251982910700
Information: Email: [email protected]
Course Information: Academic Year: 2016 E.C., Semester: II
Meeting Day: __Thursday_
Meeting Time: __ 8:00 – 11:00 AM_
Meeting Location: ______________________
Student Workload: Lecture lab Self-study Total
60hrs.
Course description: The study of medical terminology and vocabulary introduces students to the language of medicine. Students
will gain an understanding of basic elements, rules of building; analyzing medical terms including prefixes,
suffixes, word roots, medical abbreviations and acronyms. In addition to that; student will define, interpret,
and pronounce medical terms and common abbreviations applicable to the health care system. The
knowledge and skills gained in this course will provide students with a deeper understanding of the
application of the language of health in their routine activities.
Course objective: At the end of this course students will be able to:
• Define basic medical terminologies
• Identify the component parts of medical terms
• Apply basic prefixes, suffixes, and combining forms to build medical terms
• Relate the terminology to the names, locations, and functions of the major organs of the body systems
• Describe the terms utilized in disease classification and coding
• Define basic terms and abbreviations used in documenting health records
• Identify basic principles of NCOD (National Classification of Disease).
• Illustrate NCOD (National Classification of Disease) and other classification.
• Identifying Healthcare Code Sets & their Classifications
• Explain health data standards
Weeks Hours Topic
Chapter 1: Basics of medical terminology
lecture= • Introduction to medical terminology
Week 1&2 6hrs • Basic elements of medical word
• Body structure
• Component parts of medical terms
Chapter 2: Healthcare Code Sets & Classifications: ICD
• Introduction to International classification of Disease(ICD)
lecture= • ICD purpose and its applicability
Week 2-7 18hrs • The concept of a ‘family’ of diseases and health related classifications
• General principles of disease classification
• Importance of ICD
• Rules and guidelines for mortality and morbidity coding
Chapter 3: NCoD and other disease classification and coding:
• Introduction to principles and components of NCOD (National Classification of Disease).
• NCOD (National Classification of Disease) classifications and its application.
lecture=
Week 8- • Introduction to the Current Procedural terminology(CPT)
18hrs
13 • Ways of Selecting of procedural code
• Introduction to dental and mental health codes and it principles
• Introduction to SNOMED and it principles
• Introduction to LOINC and it principles
Week 14- lecture= Chapter 4. Terminologies - Drug Systems
15 6hrs • Introduction to SNOMED and it principles
 • Introduction to LOINC and it principles
• Terms used in drug administration
• Medical terms related with drug adverse reaction
• Drug content related terms
lecture= Chapter 5. Terminology and Data Set Standards
6hrs • Definitions for Data and Terminology Standards
Week 16-
• Terminologies used to describe health care teams
17
• Public health related terminology
• Data Set Standards
lecture= Chapter 6: Health Data Standards:
9hrs • Data Interchange (exchange of data between organization nationally or internationally electronically)
• Relationship between ICD and other coding terminology databases
Week 18- • Mapping ICD to SNOMED
20 • Using the Terminology and Classification Systems
• Health and health related data standards and their classification
• Terms used in health and health related data exchange
• Terminologies used in working with database and data mapping

Course delivery mode:

This course is delivered using a variety of teaching and learning approaches, including:

• Interactive lecturing,
• Having tutorial session,
• students’ presentation,
• group work,
• Giving home-take and reading assignment.
Teaching Materials

• Handout, Visual aids, LCD projector, Flip charts, Chalk and board; Computer based materials, Laptop
Computer
Assessment Mechanisms: Students will be assessed by having Continuous Assessment that holds 50% of the total
mark and the remaining 50 % by having final examination. Arrangement of the assessment methods looks like the
following:
No Assessment methods Marks in % Assessment time
1 Quiz 1 5
2 Group work with presentation 1 15
3 Quiz 2 10
4 Assignment 10
5 Mid exam 30
9 Final 30
Total 100%

References

1. World Health Organization. (2019). International statistical classification of diseases and related health
problems (11th ed.). https://icd.who.int/browse11
2. World Health Organization. (2004). ICD-10: International statistical classification of diseases World Health
Organization.
3. SNOMED International. SNOMED CT (International Edition) 2023.07.01. 2023. https://www.snomed.org/
4. National Library of Medicine. (Year). RxNorm: A standardized naming system for drugs and related
 substances. https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/rxnorm/index.html
5. LOINC. (2023). Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes. [Database]. Available at: https://loinc.org/
6. The Bantam Medical Dictionary. Published by Bantam.
7. Black’s Medical Dictionary. Published by Madison Books,
8. Dorland’s Pocket Medical Dictionary. Published by W. B. Saunders Company.