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CultureSmart, Inc. specializes in bilingual medical interpreter training programs aimed at reducing health care costs and raising health care quality.
CultureSmart’s programs train interpreters in techniques that noticeably improve accuracy of communication between limited English proficient patients and their providers. CultureSmart-trained interpreters are generally capable of facilitating effective medical encounters that may feel like the patient and provider speak the same language. Our focus on best practices for health care quality ensure
09/01/2012
Careful what you ask for!!! tyvm Mehul for posting! ;)
07/29/2012
What Can Mississippi’s Health Care System Learn From Iran? 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
Medical interpreter guides patients, staff - The Boston Globe 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
NHPR.org - New Hampshire's 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
Those Incredible Interpreters | Psychology Today Interpreting is one of the most difficult linguistic skills By Francois Grosjean, Ph.D....
08/17/2011
Cambridge, MA: Ready, Set, Certification! A Guided Pre-Certification Study Group for Medical Interpr Ready, Set, Certification!A Guided Pre-Certification Study Group for Medical Interpreters Developed by CultureSmart for active Medica
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.
http://www.culturesmart.com/blog/2011/08/17/certifiable-success-culturesmart’s-pre-certification-int
http://articles.boston.com/2011-07-24/news/29810375_1_language-gap-degraff-creole-language
The power of Creole 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
WA Medical Interpreters Ratify First-Ever Contract 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
05/30/2011
The Bilingual Advantage Among other benefits, the regular use of two languages appears to delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease symptoms.
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67 Federal Avenue
Quincy, MA
02169
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| Monday | 10am - 6pm |
| Tuesday | 10am - 6pm |
| Wednesday | 10am - 6pm |
| Thursday | 10am - 6pm |
| Friday | 10am - 6pm |