Continuing Professional Development Courses

Healthcare Interpreting CPD

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This online 12-week Canvas course is brought to you by the University of Wolverhampton and is designed for Registered or Trainee BSL/English Interpreters who would like to further their knowledge and skills in the domain of healthcare interpreting. The course materials will be available to you for a period of 4 months after you have registered.

Key information

Lead Tutor: Thaïsa Hughes

Number of credits: 20

Course fee: £360

Start date: 20 June 2022 

Why choose this short course

The course allows you to explore:

  • specialist anatomical and physiological lexicon based around the various systems of the body
  • working within the healthcare physical environment and the impact on interpreter positioning
  • discourse structures in Dr/patient interactions
  • sight translation in healthcare
  • vicarious trauma
  • the impact of the interpreter’s presence.

 

Course description

Each weekly module contains at least 2 hours of worth of activity for you to complete, including a variety of video lectures, journal articles, interpretation tasks, discussion forums, online quizzes and glossary building.

The course, upon full completion of the activities, is worth 24 structured CPD points.

Once you have purchased the course on the e-store, you will receive an email providing you with the course link and further information about how to access your course materials.

 

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