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| Name |
Communicating Through Health Care Interpreters |
| Authors |
Cynthia Roat MPH and Elizabeth Jacobs MD |
| Length |
2 CME credits |
| Funding |
Medical Directions, Inc. |
| Released |
May 25, 2005 |
| Updated |
May 25, 2007 |
| Publications |
None |
| CME Sponsor |
Rush University Medical Center |
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Description
Communicating Through Health Care Interpreters provides participants with concrete skills to make working with limited English proficient (LEP) patients easier. It provides assistance for straightforward medical interview situations, as well as in specialty-specific areas, such as mental health. The course contains 4 case scenarios that cover multiple essential aspects of working with healthcare interpreters.
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Experience
Cynthia Roat MPH and Elizabeth Jacobs MD teach physicians how to better manage patients who do not speak English. They asked MDI to help them create an online, multimedia course that would replicate key portions of their live training sessions, but wouldn't be as costly for clients, nor require that doctors be taken off the floor to attend the training session. In the first year of CME sponsorship, over 150 physicians completed this online program. Since then, a number of healthcare organizations have purchased private gateways to deliver the program to their constituents as part of their internal training requirements. In September 2006, Language Line Services, a leading interpretive service provider for healthcare professionals, purchased a site license to deliver a co-branded version of this program to its institutional clients.
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Communicating Through Health Care Interpreters
