Medical Interpreter - Milwaukee Area Technical College

Medical Interpreter from Milwaukee Area Technical College is a Campus Certificate Health Administration degree that prepares you for a Healthcare career. Overview ? Medical Interpreter is a two-semester technical diploma program in the Health Occupations division. It is designed to prepare you to qualify for employment as a Medical Interpreter for patients and healthcare providers in a healthcare setting. Career Outlook ? The Medical Interpreter program prepares you to provide consecutive medical interpretation services for patients having limited English proficiency, and for families whose primary language is not English. Interpreters are skilled in interpretation, as well as the nonverbal communication and nuances of various dialects and subcultures. Healthcare providers are challenged by the demand to provide health care in the language of the patient or client and the relatively small number of professional health care interpreters. The increasing need for professional medical interpreters can be attributed to our changing demographics, the need to provide quality of care through effective communication, the demands of cost efficiency, patient satisfaction and the federal law requiring interpreter services. Program Learning Outcomes ? Upon your graduation, employers will expect you to be able to: Aurally comprehend spoken English and Spanish Construct syntactically correct sentences (both oral and written) in both Spanish and English Correctly utilize medical terminology in both English and Spanish Comprehend written materials in both English and Spanish Render sight translations from either English to Spanish or Spanish to English Possible Careers: Medical Interpreter Medical Translator View more details on Milwaukee Area Technical College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Health Administration courses.