The Community Interpreter (TCI): Medical Focus is a comprehensive 40-hour program preparing bilingual individuals to work as medical interpreters. TCI training meets the prerequisite for national medical/healthcare interpreting certification. 

The Community Interpreter Medical Focus Training

Dates:  May 14, 15, 28, and 29, 2021

Time:  8:00am until 6pm

Location:  ZOOM  

Cost:  $375.00

What’s Included: OSU Carmen Zoom online hosted classroom. The Community Interpreter textbook and workbook will be mailed to you.  Additional cost for language assessment, see details below. Optional Medical Terminology book available for purchase.

Registration Deadline: April 16, 2021!

Participants will:

• Know how to perform professional interpreting protocols and skills for medical interpreting.
• Be able to adhere to professional ethics and standards of practice for medical interpreters.
• Understand the profession of community interpreting, its specializations, and how you fit into that profession.
• Know the role and responsibilities of the community interpreter.
• Understand cultural competence and assess if, when and how to perform cultural mediation.
• Be able to perform in three modes of interpreting: consecutive, simultaneous and sight translation.