Collaborating with Interpreters to Connect with Patients Across Language & Culture

Note: You will have until 6/30/2025 to complete and review the course material. You will receive a reminder email two weeks before the expiration date.Description: This on-demand webinar aims to prepare clinicians with information regarding the best practices in collaborating with trained healthcare interpreters, with an emphasis on maximizing direct patient-clinician connections that transcend linguistic and cultural difference. Some clinicians view interpreters as a necessary nuisance, at best. Others try to use them for functions that go beyond their role and can detract from the patient-clinician relationship. In between these extremes, interpreters can be a gift to clinicians and patients alike, as their expertise is not just around language and culture, but about effective facilitation of a relationship across linguistic and cultural divides. An ever-increasing body of literature demonstrates the importance of strong patient-clinician relationships and direct communication not ju