Prescription writing is a legal document, the physician's signature, and one of the strictest sections of medical Latin. This section contains a summary of materials to help you systematize your knowledge and confidently pass your progress test.
The theoretical part covers basic pharmaceutical vocabulary and the rules for constructing Latin pharmaceutical terminology. You will refresh your memory on the principles of forming trivial names, names of chemical compounds, plant parts, and dosage forms.
During tests and credit checks, instructors are most strict about the correct formatting of the prescription line, knowledge of standard abbreviations, and understanding of grammatical agreement and government within the prescription. To bring these skills to automatic fluency, we have included practical tasks on medical prescription writing and visual examples of prescription formulas with detailed breakdowns in this section.