Advanced Medical Interpreter Training
The NICHC workshops help you advance your knowledge & professional development and renew your national certification.
Continuing Ed
Workshop Offerings
Continuing Education Units
The NICHC offers skill-building and informational workshops for Medical/Healthcare Interpreters. The workshops provide two (2) Continuing Education Units (CEUs) sanctioned by the Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters (CCHI), and 0.2 CEUs sanctioned by the National Board for Certified Medical Interpreters (NBCMI).
Asthma
This workshop is intended to review the causes and management of Asthma for limted-English proficient patients, practice diagnosis and management scenarios, and learn some of the most important medications used to control asthma.
Diabetes
This workshop is intended to update medical interpreters on diabetes types, its causes, figures and facts, and learn how to handle a medical encounter that involves this chronic disease.
Genetics
This workshop is intended to update medical interpreters on the basic concepts of genetics, figures and facts, most common diseases, and learn how to handle a medical encounter that involves this topic.
Kidney Failure
This workshop is intended to update medical interpreters on kidney failure, its causes, figures and facts, and learn how to handle a medical encounter that involves this chronic disease.
Organ Transplantation
This workshop is intended to update medical interpreters on organ transplantation, its causes, figures and facts, and learn how to handle a medical encounter that involves encounters before and after this procedure.
Consecutive Interpreting
This workshop is intended to help medical interpreters build their consecutive Interpreting using a mathematical index (Keyword Index) to track and improve their listening and memory skills.
Sight Translation
This workshop is intended to help medical interpreters build their sight translation skills using cognitive, reading and memory skills.