Culturesmart, Inc., is a privately held organization that has been specializing in medical interpreter training since 1997. The company offers consulting services and customized training programs that help reduce linguistic and cultural barriers to quality healthcare. Culturesmart’s programs have trained over 2,000 participants between 2000 and 2007. Culturesmart training is offered to individuals and staff at medical facilities throughout the U.S.

Our most important offering is The Essential Piece, our nationally renowned medical interpreter training progam, which we deliver in a variety of languages to qualified bilingual healthcare staff.

Culturesmart utilizes a diversity of approaches to build linguistic and cultural skills within the organizations it serves. It is important to note that we do not provide formulaic materials - we customize our services and programs to the realities of the communities and populations our client organizations serve. We do so by:

• Building collaborative partnerships with the organizations we serve;
• Building working relationships with practicing experts from the medical interpreting field;
• Customizing and combining language-specific training with intensive role-plays and practice sessions;
• Offering an on-site flexible training delivery that fits the client staff’s schedule; and
• Measuring and documenting trainees’ proficiencies before and after training process

Unique Approach

By assessing the specific needs of communities that a particular health care organization serves, we are able to deliver effective, targeted training that creates measurable outcomes for clinical and non-clinical staff. We are one of the few programs to incorporate an extensive language-specific component in a medical interpreting training program.