Cultural Competence 5: Cultural Mediation for Interpreters

Course length:  1.5 hours  

Course access period: 60 days from purchase date

Once purchased, course access cannot be paused.

Course completion requirements: Pass one exit test (score of 70% or above).

Certificate: Downloadable certificate available immediately upon passing the exit test.

CEUs:

• Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters (CCHI): 1.5 CCHI CE hours
• Maryland Court Interpreter Program: 1.5 CE credits
• Ontario Council on Community Interpreting: 1.5 OCCI PDUs

Learning objectives:

After completing this course, you will be able to:

• Define culture, cultural competence and cultural responsiveness.
• Make a decision about if and when to perform cultural mediation based on the three criteria of safety, communicative autonomy and clear communication.

What you will get:

• Your video instructor: Daniel Sanchez
• 9 interactive exercises, including a role play in 9 language pairs, a self-assessment for that role play and 5 scenarios to help interpreters decide whether or not to perform cultural mediation.
• Practical advice about what to do when cultural misunderstandings arise.
• A helpful overview of “culturally responsive” mediation
• Clear guidance on how to avoid cultural incompetence as an interpreter.
• Sections from The Community Interpreter®: An International Textbook and The Medical Interpreter: A Foundation Textbook for Medical Interpreting
• Course completion certificate

 How this lesson will improve your practice:

You will:

• Know how to perform culturally responsive cultural mediation.
• Find it much easier to decide if, and when, you should perform cultural mediation.
• See how you, as an interpreter, can perform cultural mediation and still support communicative autonomy.