Bilingual Staff Assessment and Training
||Acute Care or Primary Care Option

MISA

Employers: To assess the language fluency, anatomy and general medical terminology knowledge, and medical interpreting skills of their bilingual employees.
Healthcare Providers (HCP): HCPs who self-identify as fluent in both languages are evaluated on language and medical communication skills.
Experienced interpreters: To prepare for job interview or to prepare for interpreter testing, or national certification exams.

Specialized assessments for specialties such as OB, Orthopedics, Diabetes, Cardiology, etc.
Specialized assessments for your Business Associates/Third-Party Interpreters to verify their ability to interpret for your organization's medical specialties.

60-Hour Language-specific program
Taught by healthcare professionals and certified medical interpreters.
Online format with live practice sessions and evaluations by phone to monitor student performance.
Primary Care Option or Acute Care Option.
Specialty-specific courses available: OB-GYN, Orhto, Dermatology, Diabetes, Cardiology, etc.

Healthcare Professionals: Physicians, nurses, physical therapist, nuclear medicine technologist who speak the language pair and who have received a Professional Clinical Interpreter Certificate.
A healthcare professional may partner with a CMI/CHI who speaks the language pair, and/or with another healthcare professional who speaks the non-English language to evaluate the fluency and accuracy of the candidate's rendition.
A healthcare professional may evaluate the accuracy of interpretation using our proprietary online testing method, which may combine a live over-the-phone session with computerized assessment.

Rockford Healthcare Systems, Illinois. Training of Staff Interpreters
Ohio Health Partners, Ohio. Training of Staff Interpreters
United Healthcare Group, Las Vegas, Nevada. Training and Assessment of Bilingual Healthcare Staff.
Healthcare Partners, California. Bilingual Healthcare Staff Assessment.