MEDICAL INTERPRETER ETHICS
(IMIA) EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Confidentially - Correct Answers -Interpreters will maintain confidentiality of all
assignment-related information.
Accuracy - Correct Answers -Interpreters will select the language and mode of
interpretation that most accurately conveys the content and spirit of the messages of
their clients.
Boundaries - Correct Answers -Interpreters will refrain from accepting assignments
beyond their professional skills, language fluency, or level of training.
Impartiality - Correct Answers -Interpreters will refrain from accepting an assignment
when family or close personal relationships affect impartiality.
Impartiality/respect - Correct Answers -Interpreters will not interject personal opinions or
counsel patients.
Impartiality
Imparcialidad - Correct Answers -The interpreter strives to maintain impartiality and
refrains from counseling, advising, or projecting personal biases or beliefs.
Conflict of Interest
Conflicto de intereses - Correct Answers -The interpreter maintains the boundaries of
the professional role, refraining from personal involvement.
Scope of Practice
Àmbito de práctica - Correct Answers -The interpreter continually strives to develop
awareness of their own and other (ex. biomedical) cultures encountered in the
performance of their professional duties. Cultural Competency.
Boundaries - Correct Answers -Interpreters will not engage in interpretations that relate
to issues outside the provision of health care services unless qualified to do so.
Advocacy/cultures - Correct Answers -Interpreters will engage in patient advocacy and
in the intercultural mediation role of explaining cultural differences/practices to health
care providers and patients only when appropriate and necessary for communication
purposes, using professional judgement.
(IMIA) EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
COMPLETE SOLUTIONS
Confidentially - Correct Answers -Interpreters will maintain confidentiality of all
assignment-related information.
Accuracy - Correct Answers -Interpreters will select the language and mode of
interpretation that most accurately conveys the content and spirit of the messages of
their clients.
Boundaries - Correct Answers -Interpreters will refrain from accepting assignments
beyond their professional skills, language fluency, or level of training.
Impartiality - Correct Answers -Interpreters will refrain from accepting an assignment
when family or close personal relationships affect impartiality.
Impartiality/respect - Correct Answers -Interpreters will not interject personal opinions or
counsel patients.
Impartiality
Imparcialidad - Correct Answers -The interpreter strives to maintain impartiality and
refrains from counseling, advising, or projecting personal biases or beliefs.
Conflict of Interest
Conflicto de intereses - Correct Answers -The interpreter maintains the boundaries of
the professional role, refraining from personal involvement.
Scope of Practice
Àmbito de práctica - Correct Answers -The interpreter continually strives to develop
awareness of their own and other (ex. biomedical) cultures encountered in the
performance of their professional duties. Cultural Competency.
Boundaries - Correct Answers -Interpreters will not engage in interpretations that relate
to issues outside the provision of health care services unless qualified to do so.
Advocacy/cultures - Correct Answers -Interpreters will engage in patient advocacy and
in the intercultural mediation role of explaining cultural differences/practices to health
care providers and patients only when appropriate and necessary for communication
purposes, using professional judgement.
