Medical Division
MED Talk
Tube feeding is an intervention used in almost every area of medicine: neonatology, pediatrics, geriatrics, obstetrics, surgery, behavioral health, and many more. Join us to hear vocabulary and master concepts that you will encounter in sessions with tube-fed patients. In this session, we will cover who gets feeding tubes, why they are placed, the types…
July 18th – Join the Medical Division for its Second 2023 Networking Event
This will be a relaxed/informal meet-up to interact with your colleagues, make new connections, and catch up with old ones. Optionally, you can discuss any translation-related topics and questions with other Medical Division members. To register, please fill out this form by July 17:Ìýhttps://forms.gle/Yp3BfxUxCFciKWNZA. You will receive Zoom details on July 17. If you have…
MED Talk: Remote Interpreting. Part 1: Introduction, Tips to Success
Yasha Saebi, ATA’s Medical Division Administrator, is an experienced certified medical interpreter with more than 10 years of experience in remote interpreting. In this series of talks, she will share some tips with her fellow coworkers that would help them survive challenging assignments.
MD Networking Event
The ÌÇÐÄvlogÃÛÌÒMedical Division is pleased to invite you to the first networking series event of the new year. This will be a relaxed/informal meet-up, to interact with your coworkers, make new connections, and catch up with old ones. Optionally, you can discuss any translation related topic/questions with other Medical Division members. We can share…
MD MED Talk
This is part of our free webinar series. Topic: Communicative Autonomy and the Healthcare Interpreter What is communicative autonomy? As a healthcare interpreter and part of the healthcare team, what does communicative autonomy have to do with you? How does it relate to ethical principles? We will discuss these and other important questions in our…
Medical Division (MD) MED Talk: Interpreting for Palliative Care
OnlineThis presentation will examine the meaning of Palliative Care (PC) and the difference between PC in pediatric and adult settings from the perspective of a healthcare interpreter, while focusing on the importance of differentiating between Hospice and PC, and how to consider possible translations of these two terms. Palliative Care encounters can be emotionally taxing,…
Medical Division (MD) In-person Networking
This will be an informal meet up around the corner from the venue for the 2024 CHIA Conference in San José, California, USA. Both ÌÇÐÄvlogÃÛÌÒmembers and non-members are invited to join us in a private section of Guildhouse for wine, appetizers, and casual networking from 6:00p.m. to 7:00 p.m. PT All are welcome to…
Medical Division (MD) Virtual Networking
Zoom OnlineThe ÌÇÐÄvlogÃÛÌÒMedical Division is pleased to invite you to its upcoming virtual networking event on Thursday, June 13, at 8:30 p.m. ET. This will be a relaxed/informal meet up event, to interact with your colleagues, make new connections, and catch up with old ones. Optionally, you can discuss any translation-related topics and/or questions with…
Medical Division Virtual Networking
The ÌÇÐÄvlogÃÛÌÒMedical Division is pleased to invite you to its upcoming networking event on Wednesday, January 8, at 9:00pm ET. Come kick off the new year with the Medical Division! This will be a relaxed and informal event to interact with your colleagues, make new connections, and catch up with old ones. Several questions…
Medical Division MEDTalk
The ÌÇÐÄvlogÃÛÌÒMedical Division invites you to our first MEDTalk of the year! This session will be a deep dive into IBS, or Inflammatory Bowel Syndrome, with Megan Greenlee Mapes RD, CDN, CSP. She will walk us through initial differential diagnoses, tests that are routinely ordered, criteria for diagnosis, recommended lifestyle changes, and the classes…