Add to ORKGThis thesis recounts my personal experience working as a volunteer medical interpreter for the Language and Culture Resource Center at East Tennessee State University. The result of my time spent volunteering as a medical interpreter, shadowing professional medical interpreters, and witnessing patient-provider interactions during interpreted sessions was an inspiration to study medical interpretation further and delve into the challenges faced by patients who require medical interpreters. During my time researching this topic, I found that the United States is severely lacking in Spanish medical interpreters—with some healthcare facilities employing no medical interpreters—even though the size of the Hispanic population is on the rise. I al...
This paper presents a study of the documentation of the methods of interpretation and instruction ut...
Speak (HJ)—national demonstration project targeted the improvement of language access for Spanish-sp...
In our current societies, people from different backgrounds and cultures who speak different languag...
The Spanish-speaking Hispanic population in the United States is growing rapidly, with the number of...
According to the US Census Bureau Spanish is the most common non-English language spoken in the US. ...
Language barriers can greatly affect patient-physician interactions, and thus have implications for ...
In the United States, many patients cannot speak English well enough to communicate with their medic...
The United States is an increasingly multicultural society, where there is a growing number of peopl...
Linguistically appropriate healthcare is a cornerstone of providing quality patient care. Provider-p...
As the number of Spanish speaking immigrants coming to the United States increases, there will also ...
Hispanics in the United States are considered one of the fastest-growing ethnic groups, comprising 1...
BACKGROUND:Language barriers are one of the most consequential obstacles that patients and providers...
There is an urgent and growing need for health practitioners who are bilingual and possess cultural ...
The current study explores Spanish linguistics in the medical field and the crucial role of the medi...
The U.S. has a large, continually growing, limited English proficiency (LEP) population. This chall...
This paper presents a study of the documentation of the methods of interpretation and instruction ut...
Speak (HJ)—national demonstration project targeted the improvement of language access for Spanish-sp...
In our current societies, people from different backgrounds and cultures who speak different languag...
The Spanish-speaking Hispanic population in the United States is growing rapidly, with the number of...
According to the US Census Bureau Spanish is the most common non-English language spoken in the US. ...
Language barriers can greatly affect patient-physician interactions, and thus have implications for ...
In the United States, many patients cannot speak English well enough to communicate with their medic...
The United States is an increasingly multicultural society, where there is a growing number of peopl...
Linguistically appropriate healthcare is a cornerstone of providing quality patient care. Provider-p...
As the number of Spanish speaking immigrants coming to the United States increases, there will also ...
Hispanics in the United States are considered one of the fastest-growing ethnic groups, comprising 1...
BACKGROUND:Language barriers are one of the most consequential obstacles that patients and providers...
There is an urgent and growing need for health practitioners who are bilingual and possess cultural ...
The current study explores Spanish linguistics in the medical field and the crucial role of the medi...
The U.S. has a large, continually growing, limited English proficiency (LEP) population. This chall...
This paper presents a study of the documentation of the methods of interpretation and instruction ut...
Speak (HJ)—national demonstration project targeted the improvement of language access for Spanish-sp...
In our current societies, people from different backgrounds and cultures who speak different languag...