How To Prepare For Medical Interpreting

Preparation is of great importance, especially for such professional interpreting as medical interpreting, which requires interpreters not only to be competent in medical English besides general linguistic knowledge and interpreting skills, but also to learn about background knowledge, operating principles and professional terminology of one specific area through preparation to interpret more successfully.This report, based on her own experience to work as an escort interpreter in an accupotome lecture, discusses preparation for medical interpreting and raises some suggestions with the combination of study results and project reports of domestic and international scholars for knowing about background, preparing professional knowledge and remembering terminology, for example, what interpreters should know from their clients, how they collect and prepare professional knowledge, remember terminology as well as deal with emergency. She summarizes main contents and emphasizes writing purpose of this report, which appeals to all interpreters to pay more attention to preparation for interpreting to improve efficiency and quality of interpretation.