Prerequisite: Spanish 4 or placement
The Spanish/English Healthcare Interpreter Training Certificate provides culturally responsive healthcare interpreter training to bilingual students who wish to pursue careers as healthcare/medical interpreters and/or bilingual staff in healthcare settings. The program offers the fundamentals of the national and state codes ethics, protocols, terminology, and skill-building practices to execute the three modes of spoken language interpretation successfully: consecutive interpretation, simultaneous interpretation, and sight translation. It also prepares students for the national interpreting exams which grant either CMI or CHI certification. Graduates may find employment interpreting in hospitals, clinics, or freelancing for remote and onsite interpreting agencies.
The proposed program is completable within 1 year if students enter with the Spanish language requirement completed.
We anticipate that the annual number of students completing the Spanish/English Healthcare Interpreter Training Certificate of Achievement will increase gradually each year. The core courses of the program are new and have not yet been offered. There are no data to gauge concrete annual enrollment and completion projections.
Completer projections for the 2022-2023 year: 5 students
2020 | 2020 | 2021 | 2021 | ||
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CB02: Course Title | Annual # Sections | Annual Enrollment Total | Annual # Sections | Annual Enrollment Total | |
SPAN 181 | Fundamentals of Healthcare Interpreting | New Course:NA | 0 | New Course:NA | 0 |
SPAN 182 | Skill-Building Practices for Spanish/English Healthcare Interpreting | New Course:NA | 0 | New Course:NA | 0 |
SPAN 185 | Spanish/English Healthcare Interpreting Experience Seminar | New Course:NA | 0 | New Course:NA | 0 |
NURS111 | Medical Terminology | 6 | 211 | 8 | 268 |
OT101 | Study of Human Diseases for Medical Assistants | 0 | 0 | 1 | 13 |
SPAN004(prerequisite) | Fourth Semester Spanish | 1 | 6 | 1 | 15 |
SPAN003 | Third Semester Spanish | 2 | 34 | 1 | 36 |
SPAN002 | Second Semester Spanish | 4 | 101 | 4 | 112 |
SPAN001 | First Semester Spanish | 9 | 249 | 6 | 174 |
This certificate of achievement provides a foundation of interpreting skills for students seeking to become healthcare interpreters or designated bilingual healthcare staff. It offers the necessary preparation to take a national interpreting certification exam to become a certified Spanish/English healthcare interpreter. The coursework presents Spanish/English interpreting in a cross-cultural context, addressing the national and state ethical standards expected of a professional healthcare interpreter. Students who receive this certificate may seek employment as healthcare and community interpreters, translators, bilingual healthcare staff.
The program goals fall within “Career Technical Education,” given that the main focus is workforce development and training. Whether students are seeking entry-level employment, furthering current career paths, or are pursuing retraining for new career opportunities, the Spanish/English Healthcare Interpreter Training Certificate will afford them more specialized linguistic skills training so that they can meet the following occupational competencies for healthcare interpreters:
· High linguistic proficiency in both the source and target languages
· Ability to render messages orally effectively and accurately in while maintaining a professional register and tone
· Proficiency in medical terminology as well as understanding of regionalisms, register, and linguistic nuances
· Clear understanding and adherence to ethical codes of conduct in the interpreting profession
The Spanish/English Healthcare Interpreter Training Certificate also is an excellent cross-disciplinary complement to other courses of study at Solano Community College, including Human Services, Medical Assistant, and Nursing.
As stated in the Program Learning Outcomes, students who complete the program coursework with a passing grade will:
· Demonstrate a high intermediate/advanced linguistic proficiency in speaking, listening, and reading as applied to the use of the three modes (consecutive and simultaneous interpretation, and sight translation) in healthcare interpreting settings.
· Apply critical thinking, cultural responsiveness, and linguistic skills to successfully identify and manage potential communication- and ethical-pitfalls in healthcare settings.
· Locate and articulate the resources that are available to pursue continuing education opportunities in the field, to obtain formal assessments of their specific linguistic proficiency levels, and to pursue national interpreting certifications.
Spanish/English Healthcare Interpreter Training
Course Sequence:
Spanish Language Requirement: SPAN 001-004 or Credit for Prior Learning (0-20 units);Prerequisite: SPAN004.
Up to two additional years may be required to complete SPAN001-004, if student has no prior knowledge of Spanish. Otherwise, core requirements for the Certificate are comprised of 7 courses for a total of 19 units, including 1 unit of a work experience practicum.
Required Core | Course # | Course Title | Units |
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SPAN181 | Fundamentals of Healthcare Interpreting | 5 | |
SPAN182 | Skill-Building Practices for Spanish/English Healthcare Interpreting | 3 | |
SPAN185 | Spanish/English Healthcare Interpreting Experience Seminar | 1 | |
NUR111 | Medical Terminology | 3 | |
OT101 | Study of Human Diseases for Medical Assistants | 3 | |
COMM012 | Intercultural Communication | 3 | |
OCED090 | Occupational Work Experience | 1 |
Course | Title | Units | Year/Semester (Y1 or S1) |
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NURS111 | Medical Terminology | 3 | Y1, Fall (S1) |
OT101 | Study of Human Diseases for Medical Assistants | 3 | Y1, Fall (S1) |
COMM012 | Intercultural Communication | 3 | Y1, Fall (S1) |
SPAN181 | Fundamentals of Healthcare Interpreting | 5 | Y1, Fall (S1) |
SPAN182 | Skill-Building Practices for Spanish/English Healthcare Interpreting | 3 | Y1, Spring (S2) |
SPAN185 | Spanish/English Healthcare Interpreting Experience Seminar | 1 | Y1, Spring (S2) |
OCED090 | Occupational Work Experience | 1 | Y1, Spring (S2) |
Required Total: Spanish Language Requirement: 0-20 units+ 19 units=39 units
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