Medical Interpreter Course

What will I learn?

Improve your career prospects with our Medical Interpreter Course, specifically tailored for healthcare workers in Senegal aiming to solve language problems. Get strong understanding of medical language in English and potentially French (or other relevant local language), improve how you talk in hospitals and clinics, and make your language skills better. You will learn the important things about doing the right thing (ethics), understanding different cultures, and how to properly interpret. Our short, well-made lessons will help you be good at talking to doctors and patients, keeping things secret, and handling stress, all while you keep learning and getting better at your job.

Develop skills

Enhance the development of the practical skills listed below

Master medical language: Get good at using English (and French/local language) medical words.

Improve hospital/clinic communication: Learn how to listen carefully and ask good questions.

Become fluent in languages: Get very good at English (and French/local language) grammar.

Do the right thing (ethics): Keep patient information secret and be fair to everyone.

Understand cultures well: Build trust and deal with cultural differences in a good way.

Suggested overview

Workload: between 4 and 360 hours

Before getting started, you can adjust the chapters and the workload.

  • Choose which chapter to begin with
  • Add or remove chapters
  • Increase or decrease the course workload

Examples of chapters you can include

You'll be able to create more chapters like the examples below

This is a free course, focused on personal and professional growth. It is not equivalent to a technical, undergraduate, or postgraduate course, but offers practical and relevant knowledge for your professional journey.