Medical Interpreting School For Bilingual Healthcare Workers

 

Medical interpreting school might seem unnecessary for bilingual healthcare workers. “I can already speak two languages fluently. PLUS, I am already working in healthcare. Why do I need medical interpreter school? What can I possibly learn from you that I don’t already know?"

Being bilingual is a requirement for our medical interpreter training program. In fact, you must demonstrate your language proficiency both in English and your target language to be allowed into our programs. Why? To put it simply: we do not teach you how to speak another language. We teach you how to become a skilled language interpreter. And that means we require you to already be bilingual.

So then, if you are already bilingual, and you already a healthcare worker, why would you need to enroll in our program? In short, because other people in the United States have a hard time communicating their healthcare issues in English. So you have to really know what you are doing and what you are saying. Plus, you have to know how to communicate medical conversation effectively so that everyone can understand.

What do bilingual healthcare workers learn in medical interpreting school?

Becoming a medical interpreter requires specific skills and knowledge that go far beyond everyday conversation. Our 7-week, 45-hour language interpreter training course is taught by professional medical interpreters who have real life experience. They created a curriculum that will teach you the skills, techniques and medical language required to do a good job. And the best part? They teach each course LIVE through our interactive online classroom! Which allows students to interact with teachers and get feedback in the moment through live stream video chat technology. Here is some of what our course covers:

• Maintaining patient confidentiality and the ethics of medical interpreting

• Professional interpreter skills

• Basic anatomy and physiology concepts and medical terminology like:

• • The endocrine system
  • HIV/AIDS
  • Diabetes
  • Cancer (Oncology)
  • Radiology
  • STDs
  • and so much more

• Medical standards and protocols for interpreters

• Role-play medical scenarios so you can practice medical interpreting skills in real situations

• How to accurately interpret complex medical scenarios in real-time

 

 

How long is medical interpreting school? Do bilingual healthcare workers really need 2 courses?

Medical interpreting school can take 7 weeks, or 12 weeks but it is really up to you and your goals. If bilingual healthcare workers want to communicate better with patients, then enroll in our standard medical interpreter training course. If you want to provide freelance work for an official language interpreting agency, or if you want to get paid more then consider a dual enrollment with our Advanced Medical Interpreting course.

Healthcare interpreter training helps ESL patients (who speak English as a Second Language) access better healthcare. That’s why interpreter school is so important for healthcare workers- you are learning the specialized communication skills that you don’t learn anywhere else. So the short answer is no. You don’t need an official license to work as a medical interpreter. But if you want to become a licensed medical interpreter, we recommend a dual enrollment so that you can prepare for your National Board of Certified Medical Interpreters (NBCMI) exam.

 

 

 

At the very least, bilingual adults should register for our FREE 1 hour information webinar! Ask all of your questions and get answers! ...Did we mention that it's free?

 

 

Our online translator classes are taught by expert instructors ✅ who have real-world experience in their interpreting specialty. They have worked hard to make fully remote online courses that are unique and engaging ✅ using a hands-on approach that is unparalleled by the competition. If you or someone you know is interested in our online Medical Interpreter Training Programs with live instruction✅, our fully remote yet real time classes ✅ are offered in Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Russian, Chinese, Haitian Creole, Vietnamese, Farsi, French, Hindi, Korean, Somali, Urdu, Ukrainian languages online and onsite.