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. All CEU workshops provide 2 (two) 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).
Culture-Science
- Cultural competency for medical interpreters
- Medication, negotiation, and conflict resolution: A medical interpreter’s toolkit
Medical
- Chronic and infectious diseases: Updates for medical interpreters
- Congestive Heart Failure
- Genetics for medical interpreters
- Orthopaedics for medical interpreters
Interpreting
- Errors in medical interpretation: How to avoid and correct potentially dangerous mistakes
- Ethical dilemmas in medical interpreting
- Interpreting at the emergency department
- Interpreting for patient discharge
- Interpreting in difficult situations: Euphemisms, embarrassing, and aggressive language
- Interpreting in end-of-life situations
- Interpreting in mental health settings
- Interpreting in oncology settings: More than just words
- Interpreting in pediatric settings for children and parents
- Interpreting in therapy settings: Behavioral, occupational, physical, and speech therapies
- Interpreting in trauma settings
- Interpreting religion: From prayers to last rites
- Non-verbal communication and the Medical Interpreter
- Palliative care: Challenges for the medical interpreter
- Tailored interpreting: Dissecting accents in Spanish
Public Health
- Community health: A cross-over for medical interpreters
- Interpreting for medication reconciliation
- LGBTQI issues in healthcare interpreting
- Self-care: Controlling occupational risks for healthcare interpreters
- Social determinants of health and health disparities: Language access as a health risk factor
- The impact of health literacy in the medical encounter
- The interpreter as a public health professional: Interpreters make healthier communities.