What is this National Certification of Medical Interpreters process going to do to guarantee that “rare and hard to find” languages will also be included in any certification process?
A. The other good news of this collaboration is that we already have available in 22 languages – this will increase to 30 in the next year. This National Certification is going to ensure that minority languages are included. However, this is not a simple issue. A certification process needs to be “legally defensible” and not a process that is driven by “availability” (which is relative), but by a process that is criterion based and driven by “competency”. The National Certification cannot and should not create different “versions” of the certification test. Likewise, there is no market demand that warrants the research and testing development investment required for the development of a “certification program” in a language for which there might be very few applicants, if any. Therefore, most countries in the world have solved this dilemma by having a “qualification” program which would include the current testing products of national testing companies in the market such as other langu
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