Medical Terminology OER Development and Implementation

Medical terminology courses are popular and are often required as pre-requisite courses for post-baccalaureate programs. However, little OER are available for these and often times only include written text materials. The goal of my project was to create on online asynchronous course for Medical Terminology at WVU Tech and also develop new OER for Medial Terminology courses as well.

Adrienne Williams

Assistant Professor, Biology Department

Adrienne Williams, PhD trained as a Clinical and Translational Science (CTS) Institute TL1 Fellow and received rigorous training in translational research methodologies and interdisciplinary professional skills at the University of Florida College of Medicine. As an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biology, she has taught courses at WVU Institute of Technology since 2017 and she serves as a pre-health academic advisor at WVU Tech. Dr. Williams is excited to help students pursue their goals in learning and exploration of living things. She studies, teaches, and advises on topics related to general biology; anatomy and physiology; immunology; clinical and translational science; and biological research. She is a co-investigator and project coordinator on a West Virginia Public Undergraduate Programs Grant Opportunity for a project titled: Integrated Healthcare Shadowing Experience. She is a previous IDEA Faculty Fellow and an ambassador of innovation and entrepreneurship for students on campus. Specifically, her desire as an IDEA Faculty Fellow is to help create a pathway of engaging students in the entrepreneurial mindset by encouraging novel emergent technologies, products, and ideas in a team-based setting. Dr. Williams is principal investigator on a VentureWell Biotechnology grant to support student-led entrepreneurship at WVU. Her current research along-side undergraduate students embrace the development of projects that will generate new knowledge and transform discoveries to tangible advances in the detection, prevention, treatment and cure of diseases and immune abnormalities. Dr. Williams also serves as the advisor for the WVU Tech Gardening and Agriculture Club where she hopes to foster a place where students can learn to grow their own food and flowers and to help beautify the community.