80-hr Self-paced Virtual Healthcare Interpreting

  • The absolute Gold Standard in healthcare interpreting, providing content in a vast array of interpreting topics, exercises, and activities. This course provides an extra sense of security for individuals with little familiarity with the US healthcare system and for individuals with little or no informal interpreting experience.
  • Self-paced
  • Study as you go
  • Minimal reading assignments - Lessons are presented to you in recordings of an actual instructor delivering live classes to students
  • Nine months to complete the course

Instructor: Staff InstructorLanguage: All Languages

About the course

This course is the Gold Standard in healthcare interpreting. You receive the same lessons and content as our 40-hr Self-paced Virtual Healthcare Interpreting course, plus the bonus content listed below. This is still the same as course and content offered by more than a dozen colleges and universities across the US. They contract with Interpreter University to teach their certificate programs and evaluate their students. We recommend completing this course over a 3- to 4-month period, but you can complete it in as few as 3 weeks, if you choose.

This training contains absolutely everything you need (listed below), plus these intensive bonus lessons, including:

  • Interpreting for chaplains and priests
  • Interpreting frozen text
  • Profanity & curse words
  • PPE and staying safe in the workplace
  • Bonus interpreting medication lesson
  • Bonus case studies from real interpreters' experiences
  • Bonus section on culture in healthcare interpreting
  • Bonus cultural videos & self-guided exercises
  • Bonus Interpreter Language Lab exercises
  • Bonus self-guided activities to improved interpreting

The primary content of the course includes:

  • A free language assessment in our Top 10 languages  (After purchasing the language assessment for $150, you get a $150 coupon code to apply to this course.)
  • 22 chapters jam-packed with the essential information needed to be a professional healthcare interpreter. Each chapter is divided into comfortable segments taught with video lectures between 15 minutes to 1 hour.
  • Robust quizzes that model the style in which questions are asked on national interpreter certification exams
  • Assignments designed to develop the critical thinking skills you need as an interpreter and self-assessment guides for all of your work
  • Case studies involving real-life scenarios that interpreters face on the job
  • Three of our trademarked Interpreter Language LabsTM that give you hands-on experience and practice interpreting realistic patient-provider encounters
  • A final exam to ensure you have learned and retained the information necessary to work as a qualified healthcare interpreter
  • A certificate of completion which, when combined with passing results from your free bilingual fluency assessment, make you an industry-recognized qualified interpreter.
  • Glossaries and terminology resources
  • Self-study anatomy exercises for research and creation of your personalized medical terminology glossaries

Course Syllabus

Chapters:

  1. Introduction to Healthcare Interpreting / Roles of the Healthcare Interpreter
  2. Codes of Ethics for Interpreters
  3.  Modes of Interpreting
  4.  Conduit Interpreting
  5.  Medical Terminology, Anatomy, Physiology & Body Systems
  6.  Intervening as a Clarifier
  7.  Managing the Flow of an Interpreted Encounter
  8.  Memory Development Techniques
  9.  Sight Translation Guidelines
  10.  Introduction to Culture
  11. Navigating Cultural Bumps
  12.  The US Healthcare System
  13.  The Culture of Biomedicine
  14.  Respecting Diversity & Recognizing Bias
  15.  The Cultural Broker Role
  16.  Defining the Role of the Advocate
  17.  When & How to Advocate Appropriately
  18.  Success through Effective Communication
  19.  Professional Conduct
  20.  Vicarious Trauma & Self-Care
  21.  Resources for Professional Growth
  22.  National Certification & Career Outlook

Syllabus

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