Why?
- No community standards for health care interpreters
- No accountability
- No training available in the service area
- Curriculum development originated from the San Francisco Kaiser Permanente Medical Center.
How?
- Proposed partnership with community college to institutionalize the curriculum
- National search for programs to benchmark
- Received training from Cross-cultural Health Care Program
- Support and sponsorship from Tony Gately, NCAL RMGA, and Ronald Knox, VP, National Diversity and Chief Diversity Officer, Kaiser Permanente
When?
City College of San Francisco formally institutionalized the Health Care Interpreter Certificate Program in 1997.
What?
The curriculum for the Health Care Interpreter Certificate Program is designed to train bilingual and bicultural students to develop the awareness, knowledge and skills necessary for effective linguistic and cultural interpretation in health care settings.
Features
- Integrated approach from theory to practice
- 3 Courses: Health 80, Health 81, and Health 82· 15 college credit units, transferable to State Universities
- 380+ Hours of instruction
- Lecture
- Language Lab
- Internship/Field work
- Minimum requirement is conversational proficiency in English and language of service (partner colleges may have additional requirements, such as anatomy, physiology, and medical terminology)
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