What I am learning

I am currently enrolled in three classes at College of Marin;

• Medical Terminology 1
• Medical Office Computers (Lecture)
• Medical Office Computers (Laboratory) 

My first week of classes ran very smoothly. We have not started to learn any new material yet, we spent the entire class discussing what books to get and what we will need for the class. We were told to do chapter one on our own and come in to class on monday with a brief understanding of word roots, suffixes, prefixes, and combining vowels. For example:
Leuk/emia - emia is the suffix, meaning blood condition, and leuk/o is the word root meaning white. When you put them in combining form the word leukemia means white blood condition.

The second week of classes got a little harder. We started getting more into lectures on medical terms and how to analyze them. We learned the three steps to analyzing medical terms:
1. Divide the term.
2. Label each word part
3. Label each combining vowel.
We were also assigned a test for the next week on Chapter 1. (Word roots, prefixes, suffixes, combining vowels, and some medical terms)
The Medisoft class also started picking up a bit. We had a lecture on how to sign on, back up, restore, and save our data on the medisoft program. After the lecture we got to go into the computer lab and try it for ourselves.

This week we had our test for medical terminology. I fealt great after the test, I fealt very confident with all the information. After we finished the test we started a new lecture on chapter 2, which was significantly harder then the first. Now we are currently learning about oncology,the study of tumors and how they develop from excessive growth of cells from a body part. There are two types of tumors, benign (non canerous), and malignant (canerous). We are also learning about disease and disorder oncology terms, such as adenoma (tumor composed of glandular tissue), epithelioma (tumor composed of epithelium) and many others. I am still currently working on chapter learning about body structure terms.
The medisoft class has picked up a lot, we have been working in the lab alot and creating new patients in the software. We have learned how to create a new patient, edit their information, add new businesses, back save and restore their data.