Package Description

With Alvaro Vergara-Mery, PhD, CMI

No continuing education units have been approved for this webinar.

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 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. 

About our guest Trainer of Trainers 

Alvaro Vergara-Mery, PhD, CMI

Alvaro Vergara-Mery is a Senior Medical Interpreter at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas. He is in charge of interpreter education and training, language proficiency, cultural competency, translation, and curriculum design. Interpreting Profanity is his most popular advanced workshop. He is also a consultant for Health Equity and Access Consultants.

Dr. Vergara-Mery received a bachelor’s degree from Universidad de La Serena, Chile, a master’s in Education and Spanish from Minnesota State University at Mankato, and a doctorate in Spanish from Arizona State University. He has held faculty appointments at colleges and universities around the country. 

This live webinar took place on October 31, 2013.

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