Reviewing Your Work and Improving Yourself Can Be Fun!
MAKING IT PLAIN!
In this lesson, I want to let you know that you can, and will, learn medical terminology! However, there are some doubts in many parents and teachers minds that you cannot learn this until you attend high school, or college. LET ME BE VERY CLEAR . . .I have no doubt whatsoever about your ability to become whatever it is you want to be in life! Everyday you are growing, and as you grow, you are learning more new things about yourself, the people around you, and of course, the medical terminology words listed in your book, and on this blog site. ENVISION YOURSELF as a medical doctor in your chosen specialty (i.e., Pediatrician, Internal Medicine, Surgeon) just to name a few, registered nurse, laboratory technician, medical secretary, or medical assistant. ENVISION YOURSELF as a hospital director, a medical records director, a medical coder - basically anything you want to be can become a reality.
Can you envision yourself working in a hospital, clinic, center, or a research & development facility?
Everyone studies differently using their own system of remembering people and their names, places, words, events, etc. Some people use acronyms (initials) of a word, or use street slang that relates to a specific person, place, word, or thing. ALWAYS REMEMBER THIS: What may work for you, may not work for the next person, and what may work for the next person may not work for you, which is why it is so important to find what works best for you to study your medical terminology words. THERE IS NO WRONG WAY. THERE NO RIGHT WAY. The way is "Your Way" that works best for you to study and remember what you need to know! My job is to provide an example, or two, or more, to show you the relationships of these words in your everyday life, and help you to realize that in most cases, you may have already noted the similarities and differences with many of the words you are learning about in my blog classroom..
Like most of you, I like learning new words, and have so since I was a child. But you do not have to be a lover of words in order to learn new words and their meaning. In most instances, it means that you are "Observant" in what you see, and hear, whenever words are spoken to you by someone, or whenever you read a book, a blog, an advertisement, a magazine, or of course, on your cell phone with text messages!
MS. MIRIAM'S SUGGESTIONS TO BUILD YOUR 'MED'CABULARY' POWER
First, what is 'med'cabulary?' It is 'medical vocabulary,' plain and simple. This is what I call it, and I want you to think about it in the same way.
From this point on, please discipline yourself to do the following techniques I'd often used when I was in school (And no, it was not during the prehistoric ages when I was in school, thank you very much!)!
1) Text message your friends, classmates, family members, teachers by using prefixes and suffixes.
EXAMPLE #1: Mom, I'll b home pre dinner/supper. EXAMPLE #2: I'm going ortho 2 schl post brkfst.
In Example #1: Mom, I'll be home before dinner/supper. In Example #2: I'm going straight to school after breakfast.
2) Write quickie notes to your friends, classmates, family members, teachers, by using prefixes and suffixes.
EXAMPLE #1: Jamal, wait 4 me ecto post schl. EXAMPLE #2: Hoops ecto dextr post schl endo 1 hr.
In Example #1: Jamal, wait for me outside after school. In Example #2: Hoops outside right after school within one hour.
Now, do you see why I strongly believe that you CAN learn basic medical terminology? If you can 'text message' anyone by understanding and using abbreviations & acronyms, then THIS will be a cinch! What I ask of you is to be diligent in your studies. Believe me, it will LITERALLY pay off in the long run.
3) Study your root words, prefixes, suffixes, and the human anatomy 30 minutes each week day. On the weekends, spend at least one hour of your time. If you receive regular school work from your teacher(s), then take about 15 minutes every evening after completing your assigned homework to become familiarize with your med'cabulary words.
O.k. I know that you are NOT going to like what I have to say about the following suggestion, but trust me, I promise you that you will not ever regret it later on in life if you do this simple task. I know - you've got friends to hang out with, and your time is valuable. Your t.v. programs can wait, like BET, MTV, the Lifetime Channel, HBO, Monk (well, perhaps not 'Monk' . . . I do find time to watch this program. I also love the 'Penguins of Madagascar' . . 'Keith and Rachel' on MSNBC, 'HGTV' , . . . the 'DIY' Channel . . .) but that's beside the point!!!
What I am trying to say is that whenever you find yourself having to leave the house to visit family, or if you get hung up standing on a lllloooonnnnggg line in the supermarket while shopping with your parents who may not buy what you like anyway (and instead of reading those gossip magazine):
4) Take your book ("Mom & Dad, I Want to Work in the Medical Field: ...") with you, and catch up on some med'cabulary words. Have some fun with it!
But more importantly, and I would be remiss if I did not share this with you:
5) NEVER WORRY ABOUT WHAT YOUR FRIENDS OR CLASSMATES MAY SAY ABOUT YOU IMPROVING YOURSELF WHEN YOU ARE FOCUSING ON YOUR ACADEMIC & VOCATIONAL STUDIES! NEVER!
It does not matter what your immediate environment of growing up is located. It surely does not matter if you are a descendant of the Black, Caucasian, Hispanic, or Asian persuasion, and it does not matter whether you have a lot of money, lack of money, or no money! NO ONE IS BETTER THAN, NOR LESS THAN YOURSELF! You have a brain - You have skills! Don't ever forget that.
6) Lastly, I realize that it may take some discipline to get into the groove of studying your work. But as sure as I am sitting here typing this to you, I am confident that it will pay-off in the end if you develop good habits of making time for yourself to read books that will put you in the position to generate a very good income for yourself once you have graduated from high school, and college. One of the best advice my parents taught me growing up as a youngster in school, and that is whenever I was assigned to do homework - I should do a little more than what was required of me to do. If I had to read Chapter 9, then I would read Chapter 10 also, so I can familiarize myself with the lesson.
The bottom line is that there will be times in life, and perhaps even now as a young man, or lady, attending middle school, junior high school, or high school that you should not wait to be told to do something if you know it is your job to do it. You know that it is your turn to wash the dishes at home - so do it! You know that money do not fall from the sky - you have to earn it, whether you work for yourself in your own business, or work for someone else earning a decent living! In other words, don't always wait to be instructed to do something - especially when you know that something has to be done about it. Take the time to improve yourself in everything you do. BOTTOM LINE: If you got to get up early the next morning, then get your sleep-on the night before! Feel free to use this statement as a metaphor. Don't know what 'metaphor' means? Well? While some of you are figuring out what I mean, please enjoy watching some clips of high school football by CJ Wade at http://video.berecruited.com/videos/athletes/266310/91493152
Love ya,
Ms. Miriam
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