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  • Medical Education
  • Healthcare Access
  • Humanistic Care

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  • Language barriers impede humanistic care for limited English proficiency (LEP) patients.
  • Trained medical interpreters bridge communication gaps for LEP individuals.
  • Medical schools can train bilingual students as interpreters to foster humanistic physicians and improve language access.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the impact of a medical interpreter training program on bilingual medical students' interpretation skills.
  • To assess the program's effect on students' humanistic traits and empathy towards LEP patients.

Main Methods:

  • 80 bilingual medical students participated in 8-hour workshops on medical interpretation between 2015-2017.
  • Students completed pre- and post-training questionnaires assessing interpretation skills and humanistic traits.
  • Opportunity for students to become certified medical interpreters was provided.

Main Results:

  • 98% of students reported increased confidence in interpreting; 87.5% felt more empathetic towards LEP patients.
  • Students showed significant improvement in medical interpretation knowledge (p < 0.05).
  • All students who took the exam became certified interpreters, with 92% recommending the program.

Conclusions:

  • The medical interpreter training program successfully enhanced self-reported empathy and humanism in medical students.
  • Implementing such programs is a viable strategy for developing humanism in future physicians.
  • The training aids in establishing sustainable language access for LEP patients.