EMT Curriculum

Chapter 4: Communications and Documentation

National EMS Education Standard Competencies

Medical Terminology

Uses foundational anatomical and medical terms and abbreviations in written and oral communication with colleagues

and other health care professionals.

Knowledge Objectives

1. Understand the body’s topographic anatomy, including the anatomic position and the planes of the body (pp

143-144)

2. Identify anatomical terms such as anterior/ventral, posterior/dorsal, right, left, superior, inferior, proximal, distal,

medial, lateral, superficial and deep (pp 144-145)

3. Describe the prone, supine, Fowler’s, Tredelenburg’s and Shock positions of the body (pp147)

4. Uses foundational anatomical and medical terms and abbreviations in written and oral communication with

colleagues and other health care professionals.