Teaching Diagnostic

Careers through Technology

Exploring Health CareersTracie Frisch

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Objectives

• Students will define diagnostic careers and perform surgical procedures by using an online sites.

• Students will label a heart diagram and define medical terminology by using credible online sites.

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Web-Based Searches

• Students define diagnostic careers, surgeons, and cardiologist

• Complete a web-based search to find a diagram of a human heart

• Using the medical dictionary online: http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/

• Students define medical terms that will be used to perform their heart transplant

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Online Heart Surgery

• Students will watch on the projector an 8 minute heart surgery

• While watching they will recognize medical terms and equipment being used

• Website:• http://www.cts.usc.edu

/videos-mpeg-mininvaorticvalvereplacement.html

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Heart Transplant Operation

• After watching the surgery online and discussing as a group, students will then log into their own computers and perform an online heart transplant.

• Website: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/eheart/transplant.html

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Assessment

• Students will hand in their defined terms, labeled heart, and question sheet from the heart surgery.

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