ACDM Medical Terminology, Basics of Human Physiology and Pharmacology

Designed for data managers to increase their understanding of the clinical data they're managing

Outline

Physiology
How the body works

• The Cell
• Major Organ Systems
• Nervous System - Sympathetic and parasympathetic
• Blood
• Respiration
• Nutrition and Digestion
• Cardiovascular
• Liver Function
• Renal Function
• Communication between cells

Pharmacology

• How the body works on drugs - pharmacokinetics
• eliminatio, bioavailability
• How drugs work on the body - pharmacodynamics
• agonist/antagonists
• receptor types

Medical Terminology

• how medical terms are structured
• prefix - route - suffix
• eg. endo-, ecto-, myo-, haem-, cardio-, gast-, -itis, -osis, -ia

Webinar is from 12:00 - 13:30