What You Need to Know to Become a Medical Interpreter

by Barbara J. Rodriguez

Seeking to translate your love of language into a new career? Medical Interpreters are in great demand nationwide. If you’re bilingual, have good speaking and listening skills, and enjoy working with people, you may have a future as a medical interpreter. What You Need to Know to Become a Medical Interpreter provides the reader with step-by-step training. You will learn the standards of practice of the profession, roles of the interpreter, code of ethics, cultural competency, laws and regulations affecting medical interpreters, medical terminology for each body system and corresponding role plays. •Overview of the profession and professional settings•Exercises for building memory and concentration•Standards of practice and ethical dilemmas•Medical terminology arranged by body systems•Consecutive and simultaneous interpreting practice•Role-Plays•Sight translation•Note-Taking Techniques

166 pages, Paperback

Published November 5, 2018