Intralingual translation in healthcare settings: strategies and proposals for medical translator training

Muñoz-Miquel, Ana; Ezpeleta-Piorno, Pilar; Saiz-Hontangas, Paula

doi:10.6035/monti.2018.10.7

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“…Despite these limitations, we consider that the strategies set out here can be used to improve communicative skills, both oral and written, in healthcare settings. It is, therefore, worth continuing to develop the role of intralingual translation and role-play as methodological tools for training both medical professionals (Bittner et al 2015) and medical translators, interpreters and writers (Muñoz-Miquel et al 2018). For this purpose, in view of the positive results that cooperation has yielded in this study, interdisciplinary and interprofessional collaboration involving translators, linguists, communication experts, doctors, actors and others needs to be further fostered.…”

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“…They suggest that the principles of empathic texts are three: intelligibility, patient's perspective and credibility. Other works, such as those by Fage-Butler (2013, 2015), Fage-Butler/Jensen (2015) and Muñoz-Miquel et al (2018), also tackle the question of empathy, but in a tangential and superficial way and do not explore particular strategies in depth. More studies are therefore needed to fill this gap.…”

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“…This study was conducted as part of the research project entitled "Needs analysis and proposal of written information resources for oncology patients" (FFI2012-34200), which was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. 5 There are several studies that focus specifically on addressing intralingual translation strategies in the medical field, from various points of view (see, for example, Ezpeleta-Piorno 2012, Muñoz-Miquel 2012, Hill-Madsen 2015,Jensen 2015, Muñoz-Miquel et al 2018. 6 Note that the interlingual translation process could have been more complicated if other genres (such as patient-reported outcomes, where cultural adaptation is of paramount importance) had been involved (see, for example,Petkovic et al 2015).…”

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Empathy, Emotions and Patient-centredness: a Case Study on Communication Strategies

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One of the abilities most often associated with patient-centred communication (PCC) is empathy. But how can it be achieved? There is an extensive literature acknowledging the importance of communication skills in healthcare settings. However, few studies focus on the specific strategies that can help overcome the challenges posed by PCC, especially in dealing with, understanding and responding to emotions. This is especially evident in the field of written communication. Starting from the assumption that the way in which medical information is conveyed can significantly influence receivers’ emotional response, and thus their understanding, this paper explores oral and written communication strategies that might be useful for fostering empathy. These strategies are based on the results of two funded research projects carried out by the Gentt Group (Universitat Jaume I, Spain), in which qualitative methods (interviews, focus groups and role-play with real actors) were used to improve doctor-patient communication in intralingual and interlingual contexts, in two genres: fact sheets for patients and medical consultations. The results show that avoiding ambiguous and alarming words, providing explicit explanations, using ‘you’ or the inclusive plural when addressing the patient, framing statements in a positive way, and explaining medical terms can all help enhance empathy, both in oral and written modes. In oral genres, non-verbal communication can also play a key role in showing genuine understanding. The importance of obtaining feedback from real patients and the potential of intralingual translation and role-play for improving the communication skills of medical professionals, translators and interpreters are also discussed.

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“…intralingual translation (e.g. Zethsen 2007, Ezpeleta Piorno 2012, Hill-Madsen 2015a, Zethsen/ Hill-Madsen 2016, Muñoz-Miquel et al 2018. This interpretation stresses the fact that the linguistic transformation serves to neutralize a comprehension barrier, exactly as is the case with translation in the ordinary sense of the word, i.e.…”

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Coherence in hybrid texts: The case of the Patient Information Leaflet genre

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This article investigates the degree of coherence in a particular type of hybrid text, viz. the Patient Information Leaflet, which is a lay-oriented genre fusing original and derived textual elements. Having their source in the specialized genre named Summary of Product Characteristics, derived segments undergo various kinds and degrees of registerial simplification in the transfer to the Patient Information Leaflet. Given this complex textual genesis, the aim of the article is to investigate the nature and degree of coherence in the Patient Information Leaflet genre, and, more specifically, to investigate the degree of integration between derived and non-derived elements. Following Halliday/Hasan’s (1976) definition of the coherence concept, the article examines the genre’s contextual coherence in the form of registerial consistency and its text-internal coherence in the form of cohesiveness. For the investigation of cohesiveness, the analytical framework known as Cohesive Harmony Analysis (Hasan 1984, 1985) has been applied to a sample text from the genre, and likewise to a parallel lay-oriented, but non-hybrid text from the health column of a British quality newspaper, which serves as a control. While the investigation confirms already well-known problems with registerial consistency in the Patient Information Leaflet genre, the analytical results reflect a high degree of cohesiveness, and one that is even markedly higher than that of the non-hybrid control text. Further, the results reflect a high level of integration between derived and non-derived segments in the Patient Information Leaflet.

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“…Postgraduate courses could address these new professional requirements by including tasks that enable students to acquire intralingual translation skills (Muñoz-Miquel et al forthcoming) These tasks could range from pre-translation ones, such as determinologising 8 specialised terms and concepts using various strategies; summarising texts and comparing the characteristics of 'intergenerically derived' genres (Askehave and Kastberg 2001, 491), e.g. patient information leaflets and summaries of product characteristics; to undertaking real intralingual translation assignments (Muñoz-Miquel et al 2017;.…”

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Assessing how closely postgraduate translation programmes fit the reality of professional practice: a case study of the Spanish context

Muñoz-Miquel

2018

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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 (

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Intralingual translation in healthcare settings: strategies and proposals for medical translator training

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Empathy, Emotions and Patient-centredness: a Case Study on Communication Strategies

Empathy, Emotions and Patient-centredness: a Case Study on Communication Strategies

Coherence in hybrid texts: The case of the Patient Information Leaflet genre

Assessing how closely postgraduate translation programmes fit the reality of professional practice: a case study of the Spanish context

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