Project Description
Our primary objective is to identify and describe healthcare providers' knowledge of guidelines for working with medical interpreters, including their sense of self-efficacy in adhering to the guidelines and their impressions of how effective the guidelines are in practice. We are also interested in understanding provider experiences with formal or informal training on working with medical interpreters in clinical settings. We aim to understand which guidelines providers use and which they find useful or not useful. Providers include physicians, nurses, social workers, psychologists, technicians, etc. Methods include compiling an exhaustive literature review, contacting hospitals regarding in-house training on working with medical interpreters, and surveying providers about their use of interpreters in order to identify which guidelines for working with interpreters are being used and/or are known.
Tasks and Responsibilites
The student researchers will collaborate with Co-PIs in conducting a literature review of current studies on guidelines for working with interpreters. Student will draft survey questions for the provider survey and will participate in crafting the IRB for the provider survey. The student researcher will also participate in contacting hospitals about in house training programs and survey people about training.
Desired Qualifications
None.