Medical interpreting vocabulary, aligned to MedlinePlus, NCI, CDC and FDA
Six modules for clinical encounters: anatomy and symptoms in both the provider's and the patient's register, procedures and tests, medications and dosing, the twelve specialties the CMI and CHI oral exams draw from, insurance and the system, and consent and protocol. Where an official Spanish patient resource publishes a rendition, that is the one shown first.
Source codes: MLP is MedlinePlus, NCI the National Cancer Institute dictionary, CDC and FDA their Spanish-language pages, HHS the HealthCare.gov glossary. CF means CourtFluent wrote the rendition and reviewed it; it is not from an official source, so prefer an official rendition when one is shown. A rendition shown with an official source is the safer choice on an exam.
Two registers in one module. The provider says abdomen, the patient says barriga, and the interpreter has to carry both without upgrading or downgrading either. This is the largest module in the medical glossary and the one the oral exams draw on most.
What the provider is about to do and why. Blood draws, imaging, scopes, biopsies, surgeries and the preparation instructions that come with them. These terms sit inside consent conversations, where a missed step is a missed scoring unit.
Dose, route and frequency are the units a grader never forgives. Twice a day is not three times a day, and ten milligrams is not one hundred. This module covers drug classes and common names, how to say every route and schedule, and the side-effect vocabulary of discharge instructions.
The twelve specialties the medical track's dialogues are built around. Each has its own core terms: contractions and dilation in obstetrics, ejection fraction in cardiology, A1C in endocrinology, staging in oncology. This module gathers them by specialty.
Registration desks, billing calls and the paperwork around a visit. Patients who manage their own symptoms fine often get lost here, and the renditions are set by the HealthCare.gov Spanish glossary more than by any dictionary.
Affordable Care Act→Ley del Cuidado de Salud a Bajo PrecioHHS
claim→reclamaciónHHS
cost sharing→costos compartidosHHS
electronic health record→historia clínica electrónicaCF
financial assistance→asistencia financieraMLP
home health care→atención médica a domicilioCF
Medicaid→MedicaidMLPNCIHHS
Medicare Part D→Medicare Parte DHHS
outpatient→paciente ambulatorioNCI
preauthorization→autorización previaHHS
prescription drug coverage→cobertura de medicamentos recetadosHHS
The forms a patient signs and the phrases the interpreter says in their own voice. Consent and advance directive vocabulary appears in sight translation on both oral exams; the protocol phrases (pre-session introduction, asking for a repetition, declaring a role) are scored on the CHI.
accuracy→exactitudCF
certified healthcare interpreter→intérprete certificado en atención médicaCF
conflict of interest→conflicto de interesesCF
do not resuscitate→no reanimarCF
everything you say will be interpreted→todo lo que diga será interpretadoCF
I consent to→doy mi consentimiento paraCF
legal guardian→tutor legalCF
my name is and I will be interpreting today→me llamo y voy a interpretar hoyCF
please pause so I can interpret→haga una pausa para que yo pueda interpretarCF