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This subject is no longer a part of the curriculum in medicine and I can see why.
Medical terminology is based on Latin (and Greek). That way it is easy for a person in China to understand what a guy in Norway is talking about when he's reading his publication.
Latin is also agreed upon as being an essential basis for the educated man, along with subjects such as philosophy and mathematics. And by agreed upon, I mean what I think a person should master. Latin is not necessarily a must, but for people that couldn't learn a foreign language to save their life, the logical structure of Latin should be studied.
Enough said. Latin is good to know, but having it as a two-semester crash course during the first year of medical school is not the way to go about it, and the University realized that. Two years after I had it, they dropped it from the curriculum and replaced it with the subject "medical terminology", focusing more on the direct meaning of medical nomenclature rather than learning the Latin grammer. A wise decision.
My teacher was a very knowledgable young man and his classes were great, but it seemed the students weren't interested in learning, but instead passing the class as easily as possible. There was one teacher that passed people regardless of effort and the news travelled fast, because at the begining of the second semester 30 Israelis were "in his class".
I studied really hard for this exam. I probably should have spent the effort on Anatomy instead, but I really liked this subject - but I'm glad they replaced it with "medical terminology".