The week-long course in Inukjuak, Quebec, was a pilot project that included lessons about
ethics, patients' rights, physiopathology and chronic diseases. It was taught by Dr. Véronique …

ABSTRACT< B> Objectives</B>< BR> To analyze the professionalization process of
medical interpreting in the United States. The findings are expected to provide suggestions …

Funding needs to be secured and protected for the training and hiring of interpreters for First
Nations and Inuit people. This would ensure that when clients are required to travel from …

Comme le quart de la population ne parle que l'inuktitut, les interpretes qui oeuvrent dans le
contexte des soins de sante jouent un role essentiel dans la pratique de la medecine dans …

As physicians, we are all guilty of this sentence. It'sa busy clinic day and you are already
thirty minutes behind. Your patient does not speak English. You glance at the chart and read …

Abstract Dr. Gail Gray spent a week on Baffin Island in a retreat devoted to discussions
about health care delivery in the North. She says it is obvious that traditional medical …

Masjid Al Noor mosque on 15 March. 1 He worked as an Arabic interpreter. For survivors in
the Mosque community, particularly those from a refugee background with limited English …

“I still don't understand why you Qallunaat [the Inuit word for white people] mix your food
together. I still eat like I did back then: I cut pieces off my meat with a knife. And I don't mix my …

I groan internally at the sight of the laminated yellow reminder that the next patient needs an
interpreter, who is waiting patiently outside my office. Non–Englishspeaking patients take at …

The first piece of research I ever did was a study of interpreters. I did it during a student
elective in northern Nigeria, with an Medical Research Council grant that paid my fare (just) …