The Councillor for Social Services, Family Care, Training and Employment Immigration Hall of Lorca, Eulalia Ibarra has reported that this Friday is going to start a Free Course Graduate Specialist Degree in Intercultural Mediation and Interpretation in the health field in collaboration with the University of Murcia, a development that has been launched for the first time the Consistory Lorca.
Ibarra explained that "this initiative, the Council aims to provide additional specialized training in an area where employment opportunities exist, so the program is divided into two parts, one addressed to the general public and other graduates university. "
The course is to train the professional figure of intercultural interpreter is now recognized as essential to ensure adequate access to the foreign population to health care, solving language problems in general and in particular terminology, acting as a bridge cultural and communication and facilitating health system integration.
In this first edition have been offered 30 seats, for which preference is given to applicants Lorca.
The course lasts 300 hours, including a theoretical and a practical phase, distributed on Friday afternoon and Saturday all day.
The training program, led by Catalina Romero Guerrero and Juan de la Cruz García Martínez, will be taught by professors from the Universities of Murcia and Valencia.
The performance of this profession requires an interdisciplinary training and capable of combining areas such as translation and interpretation, communication skills and intercultural mediation, medical anthropology, sociology and social work and education.
This course is the first comprehensive training experience in nature that starts with the intention of addressing the profile of the intercultural mediator / interpreter, specifically in health, organized by the University of Murcia and the city of Lorca.
With this performance, Lorca moves back to its future as a university town.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Lorca