Final Exam Questions and complete Solution
Denning [Date] [Course title] Which of the following are appropriate roles for the medical interpreter? Provide the listener with cultural information to facilitate understanding Adjust the register when necessary to make sure the patient and provider have understood each other Repeat a message spoken in one language in another language without adjusting the register All of the above - Correct Answer: All of the above
Question 2 pts
Which of the following is NOT a part of an interpreter's role? Informing the patient about his rights within the system. Providing a doctor with cultural information relevant to something a patient said. Helping the patient to decide which treatment option is best. Checking to see if a patient understood something the physician said. - Correct Answer: Helping the patient to decide which treatment option is best. Question 3 pts
You have interpreted several times for a young man in primary care who had been treated for a sexually transmitted disease and problems with alcohol and drug abuse. One day you are at your brother's home and you are shocked to discover that this same young man is dating your niece. What should you do? Warn your brother about the young man's problems. Say nothing to your brother about this young man's health problems and do not interpret for this young man in the future. Warn the young man that if he doesn't stay away from your niece, you'll tell her father about his health problems. d. Leave a note for your niece warning her about this young man's problems, but don't let her
know it's from you. Leave a note for your niece warning her of this young man's problems, but do not let her know it is from you. - Correct Answer: Say nothing to your brother about this young man's health problems and do not interpret for this young man in the future.
Question 4 pts
The patient is applying for financial assistance and has just told the Account Representative that she has no husband and that she is raising five children. You have interpreted for her before and believe that she
is not telling the truth: that her husband lives with her and that they only have three children. What should you do? Just interpret what the patient says.
Denning [Date] [Course title] Which of the following are appropriate roles for the medical interpreter? Provide the listener with cultural information to facilitate understanding Adjust the register when necessary to make sure the patient and provider have understood each other Repeat a message spoken in one language in another language without adjusting the register All of the above - Correct Answer: All of the above
Question 2 pts
Which of the following is NOT a part of an interpreter's role? Informing the patient about his rights within the system. Providing a doctor with cultural information relevant to something a patient said. Helping the patient to decide which treatment option is best. Checking to see if a patient understood something the physician said. - Correct Answer: Helping the patient to decide which treatment option is best. Question 3 pts
You have interpreted several times for a young man in primary care who had been treated for a sexually transmitted disease and problems with alcohol and drug abuse. One day you are at your brother's home and you are shocked to discover that this same young man is dating your niece. What should you do? Warn your brother about the young man's problems. Say nothing to your brother about this young man's health problems and do not interpret for this young man in the future. Warn the young man that if he doesn't stay away from your niece, you'll tell her father about his health problems. d. Leave a note for your niece warning her about this young man's problems, but don't let her
know it's from you. Leave a note for your niece warning her of this young man's problems, but do not let her know it is from you. - Correct Answer: Say nothing to your brother about this young man's health problems and do not interpret for this young man in the future.
Question 4 pts
The patient is applying for financial assistance and has just told the Account Representative that she has no husband and that she is raising five children. You have interpreted for her before and believe that she
is not telling the truth: that her husband lives with her and that they only have three children. What should you do? Just interpret what the patient says.
