Calling all trainers of interpreters! Enliven your teaching! Engage your medical interpreter students with multi-media material that emulates real health care experience. Use the power of feedback from self-recorded speech analysis to greatly enhance performance. Attendees will learn to: - Use Internet YouTube videos as a tool for practicing interpreting techniques - Use smart phones to record practice and analyze skills - Use medical videos for note-taking practice - Use a language lab to increase terminology proficiency in the weaker language and to teach accent reduction techniques.

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Home for Trainers Interpreter Trainers Webinars Workgroup
An initiative of the Standards and Training Committee
Technical Tools for Teaching
Medical Interpreters: From
YouTube to iPhones as
Classroom Aids
Guest Trainer:
Alvaro Vergara-Mery, PhD, CMI
Webinar Work Group Hosts:
Rachel Herring & Erin Rosales
October 31, 2013
www.ncihc.org/home-for-trainers
WWW.NCIHC.ORG

2. NATIONAL COUNCIL ON INTERPRETING IN HEALTH CARE
You can access the recording of the
live webinar presentation at
www.ncihc.org/trainerswebinars
Home for Trainers Interpreter Trainers Webinars Workgroup
An initiative of the Standards and Training Committee
www.ncihc.org/home-for-trainers

3. Housekeeping
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- This session is being recorded
- Certificate of Attendance
trainerswebinars@ncihc.org
- Audio and technical problems
- Questions to organizers (“Chat”)
-Q&A
- Twitter #NCIHCWebinar
Home for Trainers Interpreter Trainers Webinars Workgroup
An initiative of the Standards and Training Committee
www.ncihc.org/home-for-trainers

4. Welcome!
Guest Trainer:
NATIONAL COUNCIL ON INTERPRETING IN HEALTH CARE
Alvaro Vergara-Mery, PhD, CMI

5. Presented by Alvaro Vergara-Mery, PhD, CMI

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Use and demonstrate strategies to use the
Internet (YouTube videos) as tool for practice
interpreting techniques
Demonstrate how to use smart phones and
medical online videos to record practice and
analyze skills
Demonstrate how to use medical videos for
note-taking practice
Use of language labs to increase proficiency
with terminology in the weaker language,
accent reduction techniques

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http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
Inside the Living Body:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBIYwiktPsQ
Preparing Your Child for a Voiding
Cystourethrogram (VCUG) at St. Louis Children's
Hospital:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZyStn4UaHg
Gallbladder removal:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD-5Rp6xdzM
CABG surgery pre-op:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUefcLTlGQI

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How to use your iPhone as a recorder
◦ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tFcUghQ3TI
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Dictation apps (Dragon) translations
Note-taking
Use of language labs http://www.multimediafl.com/faq/foreign-language-lab.html
◦ Terminology
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Accent reduction
◦ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ttDTszXG4M

9. NATIONAL COUNCIL ON INTERPRETING IN HEALTH CARE
Q&A
Chat your questions
and comments
Home for Trainers Interpreter Trainers Webinars Workgroup
An initiative of the Standards and Training Committee
www.ncihc.org/home-for-trainers

10. Resources recommended by webinar
attendees:
NATIONAL COUNCIL ON INTERPRETING IN HEALTH CARE
• Healthy Roads Media has videos in various languages:
http://www.healthyroadsmedia.org/
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-zU9D3ezXE (The
Living Body with unverified Arabic subtitles)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh9uAzTjQ6Y (The
Living Body, British version, full video.
• I would recommend the List Note App for taking notes on
your mobile device. It turns speech into text
independently so that the interpreter can focus on body
language
Home for Trainers Interpreter Trainers Webinars Workgroup
An initiative of the Standards and Training Committee
www.ncihc.org/home-for-trainers

11. Announcements
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- Future events
- Session Evaluation
- Follow up via email
TrainersWebinars@ncihc.org
Home for Trainers Interpreter Trainers Webinars Workgroup
An initiative of the Standards and Training Committee
www.ncihc.org/home-for-trainers

12. Home for Trainers Interpreter Trainers Webinars Workgroup
An initiative of the Standards and Training Committee
NATIONAL COUNCIL ON INTERPRETING IN HEALTH CARE
Thank you!
Technical Tools for Teaching Medical
Interpreters: From YouTube to iPhones
as Classroom Aids
Guest Speaker: Alvaro Vergara-Mery, PhD, CMI
October 31, 2013
www.ncihc.org/home-for-trainers
WWW.NCIHC.ORG

13. NATIONAL COUNCIL ON INTERPRETING IN HEALTH CARE
You can access the recording of the
live webinar presentation at
www.ncihc.org/trainerswebinars
Home for Trainers Interpreter Trainers Webinars Workgroup
An initiative of the Standards and Training Committee
www.ncihc.org/home-for-trainers