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(Tamesia – Instructor:) A language interpreter
is a medical interpreter, essentially a person who converts
messages from English into Spanish for health care providers and
limited English-proficient patients and families.
I believe that the technical college has
that focus on from classroom to workplace.
Here we're training people so that they are able to use these skills
in a real life setting.
We do a medical practicum in which the students actually
go out into the field and interpret in a clinical setting.
(Anna – Student:) I think that's one of the
big selling points, for me, is that a lot of jobs require experience,
and I think other programs don't necessarily include the practicum
where you can say, look, I went in the field, I did my own interpreting
supervised or unsupervised, and I got this experience.
I think it's really given me something to commit to
and a way to say, you know, this is what I really want to do.
This is what I'm going to try to shape my future around.
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