Distribution of histologic terms according to language groups as a means of enhancement educational process in Histology at Higher Medical Educational Establishment

Abstract

Latin language is the basis of most medical terms used internationally and in Ukraine. Learning the educational subject «Histology, cytology and embryology» should be linked with the course of Latin for the formation in the future professionals the system approach skills and the integrity of ideas about the object of their activity. The integration of Latin and Histology courses contributes to achieving the ultimate goal of study - training of doctors, who in their practical and scientific activities will be able to deal fluently with Latin medical terminology. With the transfer of higher medical education in Ukraine on credit-module system of training, there appeared the need to pay the utmost attention to students’ self-study. To improve the independent study of some aspects of histologic nomenclature and its better comprehension, we propose to consider histologic terms from the point of view of their linguistic features, which may be structural types of the special terms in the course «Histology, cytology and embryology.» It is important to do simultaneously with the studying of the subject «Latin language and the fundamentals of medical terminology» in the course of which students work out medical terms (anatomical, clinical and pharmaceutical) as linguistic units – they regard the terms from the point of view of their grammatical structure, phonetic and semantic aspects.