An Overview of Community and Medical Interpreting

All course content is presented in English, with multiple opportunities to practice all your working languages.  That makes the program perfect for interpreters who speak or sign ANY language.

Course length: 1.5 hours

Course access period: 60 days from purchase date

Once purchased, course access cannot be paused.  

If you need more time to complete your course, 90 day extensions are available so you are able to complete your training! Your progress in the course will not be lost and you will be able to continue where you left off. Please contact the 7C staff at 7c@7clingo.com for an updated cost to extend access to your course.

Course completion requirements: Pass one exit test (score of 70% or above).

Certificate: Downloadable certificate available immediately upon passing the exit test.

CEUs:

• Maryland Court Interpreter Program: 1.5 CE credits
• Ontario Council on Community Interpreting: 1.5 OCCI PDUs

Learning objectives:

After completing this course, you will be able to

• Define, compare and contrast community and medical interpreting.
• Discuss the history of community and medical interpreting.
• Determine which interpreting specializations are part of community interpreting. 

What you will get:

• Your video instructor: Marjory A. Bancroft, MA
• 8 interactive exercises, including a history quiz
• An introduction to communicative autonomy
• An analysis of interpreting specializations 
• Sections from The Community Interpreter®: An International Textbook and The Medical Interpreter: A Foundation Textbook for Medical Interpreting
• Course completion certificate     

How this lesson will improve your practice:

• You will have a deeper understanding of community (and medical) interpreting: what it is, how it works, whom it serves.
• You will see how you, as a community interpreter, fit into the larger profession and its many specializations.
• Community interpreting as a field will no longer confuse you.
• You will know which areas of your practice fall under the umbrella of community interpreting.