Introduction
Key Topics:
- Active listening, note-taking
- Sight translation skills
- Consecutive interpreting skills
- Medical Terminology: Roots/prefixes/suffixes
- Anatomy, Body systems
- Common interpreting errors
- Elements of communication, shadowing and reflection of emotion
- IMIA and NCIHC Code of Ethics
- IMIA Standards of Practice
- Techniques for culture brokering
- Techniques for improving short-term memory skills
Course Objectives:
- To identify the purpose of healthcare interpreters.
- To define the primary roles of the interpreter using the IMIA and the NCIHC Standards of practice
- To identify the spheres of power for each member of the triad: doctor, patient, interpreter
- To identify the elements of communication
- To explain, in detail, and abide by the elements of the IMIA and NCIHC medical interpreter code of ethics.
- To demonstrate interpreting in healthcare settings with proper positioning and emphasis on reflection of emotion, use of first person, accuracy to meaning.
- To demonstrate the modes of interpreting and settings where each one is used.
- To identify common interpreting errors healthcare interpreters make.
- To perform interpreter’s introduction to patient and provider.
- Learn and practice unobtrusive positioning of interpreter, patient and provider.
- To perform sight-translations.
- Be knowledgeable about HIPAA and follow guidelines.
- Interpret in a consecutive mode with transparency, completeness and accuracy.