{"id":13713,"date":"2019-04-25T20:03:57","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T20:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tmc.edu\/news\/medical-interpreter-training-addresses-multilingual-realities-in-health-care\/"},"modified":"2019-08-16T15:05:00","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T15:05:00","slug":"medical-interpreter-training-addresses-multilingual-realities-in-health-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tmc.edu\/news\/2019\/04\/medical-interpreter-training-addresses-multilingual-realities-in-health-care\/","title":{"rendered":"Medical interpreter training addresses multilingual realities in health care"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new training program in the Texas Medical Center addresses the need for interpreters in Houston\u2019s multilingual health care market.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Healthcare Interpreter Certificate Program<\/a>, which began last year in Houston, has graduated more than 100 people who speak Spanish and other languages. The course is offered by\u00a0The University of Texas at Austin\u2019s Center for Professional Education<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One graduate found a way to combine her love of language with a desire to pivot from graphic design and work toward a career in health care.<\/p>\n

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Raquel Alfaro, who speaks English and Spanish, received her Medical Interpreter Program certificate in December 2018. (Photo: Raquel Alfaro)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cIt gave me a feel for the medical field and how I can help people with my language,\u201d said Raquel Alfaro, 43, who starts a radiology technology program at\u00a0Harris Health System<\/a>\u00a0this summer. She will be applying for part-time employment as a medical interpreter and hopes to take the national certification exam in a few months.<\/p>\n

The 10-week classroom portion of the Healthcare Interpreter Certificate Program teaches the roles and responsibilities of a health care interpreter as well as practices and principles taught or required by national accrediting groups. Additional online work is required to complete the 40 hours of education. The total cost is $1,495.<\/p>\n

The program initially was offered in Houston last year for bilingual English-Spanish speakers. The first group of 60 students began in September and graduated in December.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are a large number of people in the Houston area who have language skills and are very interested in using them in the health care setting,\u201d said Sunshine Barber, associate director of marketing for UT Austin\u2019s Texas Extended Campus, which offers career training programs.<\/p>\n

The second cohort, which was language-neutral, graduated this week.<\/p>\n

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The second Medical Interpreter Certificate Program cohort in Houston, which was language-neutral, graduated in April 2019 from The University of Texas at Austin\u2019s Center for Professional Education (CPE). CPE is part of the Texas Extended Campus, which offers a variety of career training programs. (Photo: Marina Irfan)<\/p><\/div>\n

\u201cThe principles of interpretation are being brought to students and they bring their language with them,\u201d Barber said.<\/p>\n

Graduates receive a certification of completion and qualify to sit for a licensing exam from the\u00a0Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters<\/a>(CCHI) or the\u00a0National Board of Certification for Medical Interpreters<\/a>(NCMI).<\/p>\n

Market research in Houston has shown an average annual salary \u201caround $50,000\u201d for a certified interpreter and that a license could be helpful for higher-paying jobs, Barber said.<\/p>\n

At least 145 languages are spoken in the Houston metro area, according to\u00a0U.S. Census Bureau survey data released in 2015<\/a>. More than one-third of the region\u2019s 5.6 million residents older than 5 spoke a language other than English at home and nearly 950,000\u20141 in 6\u2014reported speaking English \u201cless than very well.\u201d Survey analysis determined that 3.5 million speak only English at home while 2.1 million also speak another language. The most common, Spanish, is spoken by 1.6 million residents. Other top languages in the region include Arabic, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Tagalog, Hindi and Urdu.<\/p>\n

Some students in the interpreter certification program seek to enhance their skills in the health care setting and others aim to advance their careers.<\/p>\n

\u201cBeing a health care interpreter is more than being bilingual,\u201d said Sandra Dejeux, an instructor for the first cohort who holds a national certification as a health care interpreter. \u201cThe value of attending a class like this is that you learn about the ethics, the protocol and the implications of making a mistake when you are interpreting in the medical field.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recent research suggests that professional medical interpretation is a health and safety issue.<\/p>\n

An\u00a0analysis of case studies<\/a>\u00a0released in 2018 in the\u00a0Annals of Emergency Medicine<\/em>\u00a0found that language barriers in emergency departments can compromise care.<\/p>\n

“Access to quality medical interpreter services is a public health issue,” said lead author Jay M. Brenner, M.D., in a\u00a0news release<\/a>\u00a0from the Dallas-based American College of Emergency Physicians. “Using trained interpreters has been shown to lower readmissions and limits the possibility of patient misunderstanding, physician misdiagnosis or mistreatment.”<\/p>\n

In an\u00a0essay published in March<\/a>\u00a0by the American Medical Association’s\u00a0Journal of Ethics<\/em>, Chicago medical student Gabriela Aitken, who emigrated from Colombia, argued that training medical students as certified interpreters would help curb health disparities for Spanish-speaking patients.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an idea Celeste Zsembery, a student at the\u00a0UTMB School of Medicine<\/a>\u00a0in Galveston, embraced last year when she enrolled in the UT Extended Campus program.<\/p>\n

While she learned\u00a0estomago\u00a0<\/em>for stomach as an undergraduate Spanish minor, her vocabulary now includes\u00a0vientre\u00a0<\/em>for tummy and\u00a0barriga<\/em>, which she first heard used to describe a belly in an OB-GYN clinic.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe nuances of the language and being able to interpret on that level \u2026 you just don\u2019t get that in a college classroom. You really need a professional level of training to get that polishing step to be able to interpret correctly,\u201d the 30-year-old said. \u201cThe patients that I have worked with \u2026 almost everyone comments on how surprised they are at how well I can interpret and understand and communicate and they definitely did not make those comments before I had the class.\u201d<\/p>\n

Specialized vocabulary words, common terms for the same body part and \u201cbeing aware of the different health care cultural practices\u201d of Spanish-speaking populations were all vital aspects of the training, Zsembery added.<\/p>\n

For instance, when an infant is brought to a pediatric visit wearing a beaded bracelet, the clinician may warn against a choking hazard.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut culturally, that\u2019s a\u00a0mal de ojo<\/em>\u2014protection from the evil eye,\u201d Zsembery said. \u201cBeing able to recognize that, maybe we can ask if we can pin it to the back of the child where they won\u2019t choke on it and still be protected. That\u2019s probably the most valuable thing I learned.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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