Medical Interpreter Certification Written
Exam
Accuracy - ✔️✔️Maintaining all units of meaning in a way that sounds natural in the
target language
Role of Conduit - ✔️✔️Basic role of the interpreter, serving as the voice of both patient
and provider
Role of Clarifier - ✔️✔️Checking for understanding, removing any doubts
Role of Cultural Broker - ✔️✔️Detecting cultural misunderstandings, providing the
necessary cultural framework to provide understanding
Role of Advocate - ✔️✔️When someone's health, well-being, or dignity is at risk - most
active role, most rare
Opposite ends of Incremental Intervention - ✔️✔️Removing barriers to communication
<> Undermining LEP-provider relationship
Register - ✔️✔️Level of formality
Lowering the register does not equal - ✔️✔️explaining. Explaining is the job of the
provider
Steps of sight translation - ✔️✔️1. Read
2. Identify unfamiliar concepts
3. Analyze register
4. Ask for clarification
5. Translate at a steady pace
Triggers to advocacy - ✔️✔️Life, health, or dignity in danger, specifically due to
systemic barriers
Positioning - ✔️✔️sit next to and slightly behind LEP person
Positioning for trauma survivors - ✔️✔️person may need additional space, may reach
out to interpreter for comfort
Modalities of interpretation - ✔️✔️On-site
OPI
VRI
Exam
Accuracy - ✔️✔️Maintaining all units of meaning in a way that sounds natural in the
target language
Role of Conduit - ✔️✔️Basic role of the interpreter, serving as the voice of both patient
and provider
Role of Clarifier - ✔️✔️Checking for understanding, removing any doubts
Role of Cultural Broker - ✔️✔️Detecting cultural misunderstandings, providing the
necessary cultural framework to provide understanding
Role of Advocate - ✔️✔️When someone's health, well-being, or dignity is at risk - most
active role, most rare
Opposite ends of Incremental Intervention - ✔️✔️Removing barriers to communication
<> Undermining LEP-provider relationship
Register - ✔️✔️Level of formality
Lowering the register does not equal - ✔️✔️explaining. Explaining is the job of the
provider
Steps of sight translation - ✔️✔️1. Read
2. Identify unfamiliar concepts
3. Analyze register
4. Ask for clarification
5. Translate at a steady pace
Triggers to advocacy - ✔️✔️Life, health, or dignity in danger, specifically due to
systemic barriers
Positioning - ✔️✔️sit next to and slightly behind LEP person
Positioning for trauma survivors - ✔️✔️person may need additional space, may reach
out to interpreter for comfort
Modalities of interpretation - ✔️✔️On-site
OPI
VRI
