Description
December 8, 2025 | 12:00 – 1:00 PM Best Practices When Working with Medical Interpreters
Description:
Patients who do not speak English fluently face language barriers and stigma that can have many adverse effects on the health care they receive. Working with an interpreter is essential to addressing these barriers and providing the highest level of care possible. There are specific techniques that should be employed when working with an interpreter that we will cover in the training session including special considerations, appropriate language, and eye contact.
Learning Objectives:
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- Spatial considerations in the room with the patient, provider, and interpreter
- Reasons why it is so important to work with an interpreter when there is a language barrier.
- Appropriate language and interactions when working with an interpreter.
- Tips for working with phone interpreters.
Presenter: Demetri Blanas, MD, MPH
Presenter: Ketson DuBuisson
Ketson DuBuisson is a Community Health Worker that has many years of experience working in Maine with Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Workers. He is fluent in French, Haitian Creole, Spanish, and English.
Continuing Medical Education:
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education and CCSME. The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education is accredited by the Maine Medical Association Committee on Continuing Medical Education and Accreditation to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Hanley Center for Health Leadership and Education designates this regularly scheduled series for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
*Nurses and Nurse Practitioners will be awarded a certificate of participation with a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit ™.
This course has been approved by Co-Occurring Collaborative Serving Maine (CCSME), as a NAADAC Approved Education Provider, for 1 educational credits. NAADAC Provider #324712, CCSME is responsible for all aspects of the programming.
Contact Hours 1 contact hours for social workers, licensed clinical professional counselors, and behavioral health professionals.
1 Category 1 Contact hours for psychologists. CCSME is a pre-approved sponsor and provider of Professional Education Activities for Psychologists.
1 contract hours CHES. CCSME is a designated provider of continuing education contact hours (CECH) in health education by the National Commission of Health Education Credentialing, Inc.
