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This paper presents the results of an empirical descriptive and contrastive study designed to assess how closely postgraduate translation programmes fit the reality of professional practice. Focusing on medical translation, the case study analyses the convergences and divergences between the competences that professional medical translators deploy in their work and highlight as being essential and those that students are expected to acquire in postgraduate courses in which medical translation is taught. Two empirical studies were conducted. The first study focused on a socioprofessional perspective: 167 English-to-Spanish medical translators were surveyed to obtain information about their profiles and their opinions on the competences needed for medical translation. The second study focused on an academic perspective: the syllabuses of postgraduate courses in which medical translation is taught in Spain were analysed to determine the competences students are expected to acquire. The results of these two studies, which are analysed, compared and discussed, show that there are a significant number of convergences, but also some divergences, between the university courses and the professional practice. These raise interesting questions which need to be taken into account when designing, planning and improving existing and new postgraduate courses. Keywords: competences, gap between the profession and academia, medical translation, postgraduate programmes, professional translators. 'translators with a scientific-medical background' (TSBs). The questionnaire consisted of 47 questions, the majority of which were closed. These were grouped into three blocks: Academic and socio-professional profile, which included questions about training received, clients, genres and topics translated, difficulties encountered, resources used, years of experience, and tasks performed, among others. Competences, where respondents had to assess the importance of a given list of competences on a 1-to-5 Likert scale. To this end, we developed a framework of competences based on: (1) the results of the interviews conducted with medical translators in the qualitative exploratory study (Muñoz-Miquel 2014); (2) literature reviews on translation competence models (
Este artículo presenta los resultados de un estudio cualitativo de carácter exploratorio cuyo objetivo era obtener información sobre el perfil del traductor médico y las competencias necesarias para el ejercicio profesional. Para ello, se ha entrevistado a doce traductores de diversos perfiles formativos (médicos, biólogos y traductores) que trabajan como autónomos o en plantilla para organismos diversos. El estudio nos ha permitido obtener datos variados sobre el ejercicio de la traducción médica (géneros y temas traducidos, dificultades encontradas, requisitos exigidos, clientes, etc.) y ha puesto de manifiesto interesantes diferencias en el desarrollo profesional de los traductores según el perfil formativo o el régimen laboral. Los resultados muestran, además, que la adquisición de conocimientos médicos básicos o el dominio de las fuentes de documentación son algunas de las competencias que los informantes consideran clave para el ejercicio profesional.palabras clave: perfil del traductor médico profesional, competencias, estudio cualitativo, formación en traducción médica. (genres and topics translated, difficulties encountered, employers' requirements, clients, etc.) The profile and competences of medical translators from the professionals' point of view: A qualitative approach This paper presents the results of an exploratory qualitative study aimed to gather information on the medical translator profile and the competences required for the practice of the profession. To do so, twelve translators with different training profiles (physicians, biologists and translators) working as freelancers or staff workers in different organizations were interviewed. The study allowed us to obtain data about the practice of medical translation
Recent studies have shown that medical translators are increasingly called upon to write patient information materials by reformulating specialised texts, either inter-or intralingually (Muñoz-Miquel 2014, 2016a. This activity requires applying a series of intralingual translation skills, which, however, are rarely addressed in medical translator training programmes. This paper aims to contribute to filling this gap by putting forward a proposal designed to help translators acquire these skills. For this purpose, we take as a starting point an empirical study carried out by the GENTT Research Group (Universitat Jaume I, Spain) in which a series of intralingual strategies were used to make real fact sheets for cancer patients more comprehensible and effective for 1. This article is part of the research projects: "Improving interlinguistic and intercultural clinical communication: new methodologies for training healthcare professionals" (2016-2018) (FFI2015-67427-P), funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Innovation (MINECO); and "Study of Informed Consent and Medical Consultation in the Spanish and British contexts: new methodologies for improving clinical communication" (2016-2018) (P1·1B2015-73) funded by the University Jaume I (Spain).Recibido / these readers. After describing the strategies, which were validated by the patients, we offer a training proposal aimed at fostering medical translators' skills for dealing with this type of intralingual translation. ResumenSegún estudios recientes, a los traductores médicos se les requiere redactar textos dirigidos a pacientes a partir de la reformulación, ya sea inter o intralingüística, de textos especializados (Muñoz-Miquel 2014, 2016a. Para ello, es necesario aplicar una serie de estrategias de traducción intralingüística, que, sin embargo, apenas se trabajan en los programas de formación traductores médicos. Este artículo pretende contribuir a llenar este vacío mediante una propuesta orientada a su adquisición. Para ello nos basamos en los resultados de un estudio empírico llevado a cabo por el grupo GENTT (Universitat Jaume I) en el que se mejoró la comprensibilidad de una serie de folletos para pacientes oncológicos mediante el uso de estrategias de traducción intralingüística. Tras describir dichas estrategias, que fueron validadas por los pacientes, proponemos una serie de actividades didácticas con el objetivo de fomentar la habilidad de los traductores para enfrentarse a este tipo de traducciones.
In the literature on medical translation, the question as to who translates (orshouldtranslate) medical texts has been largely discussed on the basis of the traditional linguists versus subject-matter experts opposition. Both scholars and professional translators have attempted to determine medical translators’ profile by making statements about the characteristics of translators with a linguistic background and those of translators with a scientific-medical one. These statements are generally based on intuition or personal experience rather than on empirical data which can be used to back up any kind of evaluation that may be made. This paper aims to bridge this gap by presenting the results of an empirical descriptive study which surveyed practicing medical translators. The survey included questions such as academic qualification, years of experience, customers, genres translated, main difficulties encountered, and degree of self-instruction received, among others. On the basis of these data, this paper approaches the medical translators’ profile and explores the main differences between translators with a linguistic background and translators with a scientific-medical one. The results show that some of the most substantial differences between them relate to the years of experience, difficulties encountered, documentation resources used, and training needs.
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