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Interpreter Associations
Although there are well-known national and regional organizations that
represent interpreters/translators in the legal, business, and conference
fields, professional organizations specifically for medical interpreters
have been non-existent until very recently. Now a few organizations around
the country are being organized to provide support to, and promote excellence
in, bilingual medical interpreting.
Medical interpreting professional organizations have, and are, being
created to:
- Foster formal training and education of interpreters by promoting and
establishing a core curriculum for theory and practicum
- Develop performance and evaluation criteria (standards of practice)
- Promote recognition of competency through credentialing either by certification,
licensing or registration
- Disseminate information; and, in some cases
- Demonstrate organizational strength and presence
In this section you will find information about interpreter associations
that specifically target medical interpreting as well as associations with
a broader focus. In order to continue adding as much information to this
section as possible, we would like to engage your assistance:
- Are you aware of such professional organizations in your area?
- Would you like to share information about such organizations with us?
- Do you think the creation of a national bilingual medical interpreting
organization is necessary? If not, why not?
- If yes, would you be interested in working toward the creation of such
entity?
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