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Training the Experts in Medical Translation
Part II: Focusing on Interpreting
Research-informed Content for Training Professionals in Medical Interpreting
Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez (University of Alcalá, Spain)
BIODATA
Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez is an Associate Professor in the Department of Modern Philology at the University of Alcalá, Spain. She teaches on the Bachelor’s Degree in Modern Languages and Translation and on the Master's Degree in Intercultural Communication and Public Service Interpreting and Translation. She has been a member of the FITISPos-UAH Research Group since 2001 and is Vice-President of the European Association ENPSIT. She has been Principal Investigator in several projects such as ‘Corpus Pragmatics and Telephone Interpreting’, funded by the Spanish Government (2023–2026) and has participated in European research projects such as SOS-VICS (2011–2014), AHEH- Knowledge Alliances (2018–2021), and MHEALTH4ALL (2022–2025).
ABSTRACT
The aim of this chapter is to present the structure of two research projects as well as selected results. The first of these projects is MHEALTH4ALL (‘Development and implementation of a digital platform for the promotion of access to mental healthcare for low language proficient third-country nationals in Europe’, www.mhealth4all.eu), funded by the European Commission’s Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund (AMIF). The second project I hereby discuss is DIALOGOS (‘Communication in public service interpreting and translating with languages of lesser diffusion’, dialogoserasmus.eu), funded by the European Commision’s Erasmus+ KA220 Programme. Both projects place an emphasis on communication in healthcare settings with language and culture discordant patients while examining the training offered to medical and healthcare interpreters and intercultural mediators. In this chapter, I emphasise the application of the results in the development of training actions.
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