CultureSmart

07/29/2012

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/magazine/what-can-mississippis-health-care-system-learn-from-iran.html?pagewanted=all

Nowhere is our health care system more broken and desperate than rural Mississippi. Can an approach used in Iran help save lives?

11/21/2011

http://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2011/11/20/medical-interpreter-guides-patients-staff/Z8XR4oztS5pObWr4gZhMyL/story.html

Lilia Karapetyan’s first experience as a medical interpreter came after the massive earthquake in her native Armenia in 1988. As foreign aid workers arrived, Karapetyan, who spoke English, volunteered to translate for American doctors. Nine years later, Karapetyan, 54, immigrated to the United State...

11/20/2011

Avoid filler words during presentations. Useful short tip, among others from HBR.

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11/15/2011

http://www.nhpr.org/new-hampshires-immigration-story-immigration-and-healthcare

Healthcare delivery is complicated enough without language barriers, financial difficulties and cultural misunderstandings. Being a newcomer in a strange country presents many new challenges but healthcare is one of the most difficult to overcome. We take a look at the myriad obstacles the foreign b...

09/17/2011

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/life-bilingual/201109/those-incredible-interpreters

Interpreting is one of the most difficult linguistic skills By Francois Grosjean, Ph.D....

08/17/2011

Ready, Set, Certification!A Guided Pre-Certification Study Group for Medical Interpreters  Developed by CultureSmart for active Medica

08/17/2011

With frequent use of role plays and other effective techniques, participants in CultureSmart’s certification prep course were not only presented with medical terminology, logistics and techniques for interpreting, but also had hours to practice their skills and to observe their colleagues.

08/12/2011

http://articles.boston.com/2011-07-24/news/29810375_1_language-gap-degraff-creole-language

When Michel DeGraff was a young boy in Haiti, his older brother brought home a notice from school reminding students and parents of certain classroom rules. At the top of the list was “no

08/12/2011

http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/20814-1

OLYMPIA, Wash. - Medical interpreters in Washington - the people who help doctors and social workers communicate with non-English speakers - voted Tuesday to ratify their first union contract, in an agreement that is the first of its kind in the nation. Interpreters, required by federal law for Med...

06/03/2011