About The Community Interpreter® Online (TCIO)
The Community Interpreter® Online (TCIO) is the online, on-demand version of The Community Interpreter®, the only national training program in the U.S. for community interpreters and the leading program for medical interpreters. TCIO (40-hour version) consists of 24 online lessons, each ranging from 1.5 to 2 hours.
The program includes:
Role plays in 9 language pairs with English (Amharic, Arabic, English, French, Korean, Mandarin, Spanish, Russian, Vietnamese) and 5 additional role plays in English only
Two textbooks (The Community Interpreter®: An International Textbook, The Medical Interpreter: A Foundation Textbook for Medical Interpreting)
A video instructor per lesson
Quizzes and self-assessment exercises
Audio and video examples of interpreting scenarios
A 90-minute final assessment
Course completion certificate
Here’s a peek inside The Community Interpreter® Online: