Human Services
Professional Development Opportunities
Bridging the Gap
This program is offered in partnership with Tri County Memorial Hospital, Whitehall, Wis. with generous support from the Wisconsin Office on Rural Health
Bridging the Gap is the leading medical interpreter training program in the U.S. today. Developed by the Cross Cultural Health Care Program, (Seattle, Wash.), this foundation course prepares bilingual individuals to work as medical interpreters in hospital and clinic settings.
Who should attend:
Health care educators and providers, foreign language students and bilingual lay people who are interested in providing medical interpretation. Students should have proficiency in both English and a second language.
Course Content:
- Basic interpreting skills
- Roles, ethics, managing the flow of a session
- Information on health care
- Anatomy and an introduction to the health care system, bilingual medical terminology
- Culture in interpreting
- Self-awareness, basic characteristics of specific cultures, traditional health care in specific communitie
- Communication skills for advocacy
- Listening skills, communication styles, appropriate advocacy
- Professional development
- Effective communication, professional conduct, resources for professional growth
Course participants receive:
- 450-page manual
- A bilingual medical glossary (available in 18 languages)
- Certificate of completion/attendance
Registration Policies and Procedures
- Registration is limited to 25 participants
- Applicants must pass a Language Proficiency Assessment before being accepted into the course. Contact UW-L CEE at 608.785.6508 to schedule assessment.
Registration deadline Monday, July 11, or until filled.
July 21, 22, 23 and August 4, 5, 6, 2008
8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. (40 hours)
2064 Health Science Center, UW-La Crosse
$100, includes materials and lunches
.4 CEUs
For more information: 608.785.6508 or langaard.kare@uwlax.edu
Instructors:
Ann Moyer, RN, BSN, MSN, has earned both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in nursing from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and has been actively involved in the practice of nursing since 1971. This has included working as a professional nurse in both Chile and Mexico, and working as a bilingual nurse and medical interpreter in both Wisconsin and Illinois. Moyer has experience teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Nursing and is currently involved in the teaching of physicians at the Southern Wisconsin Family Practice Residency Program in Janesville, Wis. She is also the Bridging the Gap instructor for the Mercy Health System in Janesville and in Northern Illinois. A concurrent career as a stage and television actor in the Chicago area has helped hone presentation skills which enhance the Bridging the Gap experience for students.
Ruben Garza, MD, is a graduate of the University of Texas Pan American and University of Nuevo Leon, School of Medicine. He was born and raised in South Texas with Spanish as his primary language. He has been a provider, manager, director and administrator for small as well as large complex extended and ambulatory health care facilities in the Midwest including Texas and Mexico. His knowledge of the health care needs of migrants, seasonal farm workers and the indigent come from many years of service to this population. He has served as a consultant to the Mexican Department of Foreign Relations on planning health care services for Mexican immigrants in the United States. Garza provides Bridging the Gap instruction and instruction on Spanish medical terminology. He provides medical interpretation services at Gundersen Lutheran, La Crosse, Wis.
