Initial Review: November, 1997
Additional Review: March, 2003
Five-Year Review: January, 2005
Since its founding in 1897, the Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center has provided educational opportunities for health care professionals. Through its Saint Francis Academy, it makes available new opportunities to its employees to continually enhance their skills and knowledge. By offering employees the opportunity to grow and develop, Saint Francis
Hospital and Medical Center is positioning itself to meet the health care challenges of the 21 st Century.
Source of official records:
The Saint Francis Academy
Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center
114 Woodland Street
Hartford, CT 06105
C OURSES AND R ECOMMENDATIONS
Medical Terminology (3 cr. Basic)
Location : The Saint Francis Academy, Saint Francis
Hospital and Medical Center.
Length: 13 weeks; 55 hours of instruction
Date: September, 2001 – January, 2010
Objective: To teach a word-building system used to construct and analyze new medical terms along with increasing the student's medical vocabulary.
Instruction : Medical Terminology is a 13-week selfstudy course that is a basic introduction to medical terminology. The majority of the learning takes place outside the classroom setting. The text, a word building system, helps the student to learn word parts that are used to construct and analyze new medical terms.
This provides the opportunity to decipher unfamiliar terms and check their spelling. Emphasis is placed on spelling, definition and usage. Audiotapes are used to aid the student in pronunciation of medical words.
Recommendation : 3 lower division semester credit hours in Medical Terminology.
C OURSE R EVIEWED ON M ARCH 3, 2003
Topic in Medical Terminology: A System
Approach to Human Anatomy (1 cr. Basic)
Location : The Saint Francis Academy, Saint Francis
Hospital and Medical Center.
Length: 10 weeks; 20 hours of instruction
Date: September, 2001 – January, 2010
Objectives: This course introduces students to terminology and functions of the major structures located within the organ systems of the human body.
Emphasis is placed on the relationship between the structure and function of the various organ systems in maintaining normal functioning of the human body.
Instruction : Course format is lecture/discussion with required pre-course reading and assignments.