The
Essential Piece
A 45-Hour
Multilingual Medical
Interpreter Training Course for
Bilingual Healthcare Staff
Building
on existing untapped linguistic
and cultural resources, The
Essential Piece medical
interpreter training provides
qualified bilingual individuals
with the skills required to deliver
accurate and complete medical
interpretation in health care
settings.
The training also
establishes participants' qualifications
through extensive screening. Only
candidates who demonstrate proficiency
in comprehensive evaluations are
granted a Certificate
of Successful Completion.
Culturesmart's Medical Interpreter
Training Programs have been offered
to over 2,000 trainees who speak
more than 20 languages. We are
a leading program in the US to
offer training in English and
currently over 20 target languages,
and where participants are evaluated
extensively for proficiency
in medical interpreting and knowledge
of medical interpreting principles
and medical vocabulary.
After attending
this training course, participants
will be able to:
- Identify barriers to understanding
that can occur between English-speaking
providers and LEP patients and
use various techniques to overcome
those barriers
- Demonstrate an understanding
of the Interpreter Code of Ethics,
the Standards of Practice by the
Massachusetts Medical Interpreters
Association (MMIA), the National
Council on Interpreting in Health
Care (NCIHC) and the various legislative
guidelines for interpretation
- Identify the specific roles of
the interpreter as established
by the MMIA and the California
Health Interpreters Association
(CHIA)
- Demonstrate basic knowledge of
anatomy, physiology, pathology
- Define key terms related to body systems and medical specialties in English and target language
- Demonstrate an understanding of organizational policies, procedures and protocols as they relate to expectations of the interpreter
- Demonstrate an understanding
of health disparities, why
they exist and what interpreters
can do reduce health disparities
- Demonstrate ability to interpret accurately and completely through role-plays, using appropriate bilingual terms, note-taking and memory retention strategies, and self-correction techniques as needed
Program Overview
and Selected Content:
Pre-Course Language Assessment
and Placement
DAY 1: Foundation,
Interpreter Role Overview,
Language-Specific Interpreting
Practice
DAY 2: Code of
Ethics, Interpreting Logistics, Human
Body I, Language-Specific Interpreting
Practice
DAY 3: Biomedicine,
Health Disparities, Human Body II,
Language-Specific Interpreting Practice
DAY 4: Patient
Culture and Interpreting, Human Body
III, Language-Specific Interpreting
Practice
DAY 5: Leadership,
Ensuring Access to Health Care, Dual
Role, Language-Specific Interpreting
Practice
DAY 6: Comprehensive
Oral and Written Final
Assessments
Key Features
- Extensive Pre- and Post-Training Screening of Participants
- Medical
Vocabulary – Advanced
Medical Vocabulary in Target Language
with Language Coaching
- Role-Playing:
Intensive role-play sessions simulating
doctor-patient encounters
- Peer observation and critiquing
- Proven Method: Culturesmart has trained over 2,000 interpreters who speak more than 20 languages
- Subject
Matter Experts – Most
Trainers work as Full-Time Interpreters
- Flexible Design and Easily Modified Curriculum for Customer Needs
- Training Schedule Spread over Longer Periods of Time – usually over 6 weeks
For more information about The
Essential Piece or
if you are interested in bringing
this training program to your
facility or your community, please
contact us |
