Beyond the Clinic: Core Interpreting Skills for High-Register Simultaneous Settings
An 8-Week Performance-Based Intensive Training for Healthcare Professionals
Online via Zoom
Starts June 20, 2026
Max 30 interpreters
Approved by CCHI
Christopher M. Fallas Ureña
Certified Medical & Court Interpreter — California & Oregon
Christopher Michael Fallas Ureña is a certified medical interpreter and a certified court interpreter in California and Oregon with more than 25 years of professional experience across the Americas. He works as an interpreter, instructor, translator, and lecturer specializing in interpreting in Spanish, English, and Norwegian.
He has trained and mentored court and medical interpreters for many years through professional training programs and continuing education initiatives. His work ranges from teaching OHA-approved 60-hour healthcare interpreter programs to helping develop and deliver continuing education workshops for certified court interpreters while serving as a staff interpreter for the Oregon Judicial Department at the Multnomah County Courthouse.
Christopher is delighted that this spring brings the opportunity to exchange ideas with interpreters who keep language flowing across Oregon’s high desert country — steady as the Deschutes.
Course Description
As the healthcare landscape evolves, interpreters are increasingly required to operate in systems-level environments, such as hospital governance boards, healthcare labor assemblies, staff trainings, public health briefings, and policy forums, where simultaneous interpreting is often the primary mode of communication.
Beyond the Clinic is a performance-based program designed to develop the cognitive, linguistic, technical, and professional skills required for high-register simultaneous interpreting in one-to-many healthcare-related settings.
Using authentic, high-register discourse from healthcare labor, public health, administrative, and policy-adjacent settings, participants engage in a progressive 8-week curriculum. The course focuses on the mental mechanics of simultaneous interpreting, including paraphrasing, shadowing, décalage control, listening while speaking, dynamic reformulation, anticipation, compression, error recovery, terminology preparation, voice control, audience engagement, and teamwork.
The program follows a flipped-classroom model. Weekly live sessions are devoted to theory, guided demonstration, coaching, and performance feedback. Weekly guided labs provide structured independent practice at progressive speeds. Beginning in Week 2, students are formally introduced to the full practice-speed ladder: 120, 140, and 160 words per minute.
Program Goal
By the end of the program, participants will be able to perform structured simultaneous interpreting in high-register healthcare-related settings with improved accuracy, controlled ear-voice span, clear delivery, effective reformulation, professional self-monitoring, and basic teamwork readiness. Students will also understand how lead and support interpreters coordinate terminology, numbers, handoffs, equipment, and recovery strategies during one-to-many assignments.
Core Competencies
Cognitive Load & Décalage
Manage ear-voice span to support anticipation, accuracy, and message completeness.
Dynamic Reformulation
Move from literal transfer to natural, listener-ready target-language production.
Dual-Task Processing
Strengthen the ability to listen and speak simultaneously under sustained cognitive pressure.
Error Recovery & Self-Monitoring
Use chunking, compression, correction, and recovery strategies during rapid delivery.
Professional Coordination
Develop teamwork habits for co-interpreting, seamless handoffs, terminology support, and troubleshooting of IR systems, transmitters, and remote workflows.
Audience Engagement
Refine voice control, pacing, tone, microphone technique, and audience awareness.
This training is accredited by:
The Certification Commission for Healthcare Interpreters (CCHI)
for 24.0 performance-based CE hours, CEAP accreditation ID #11167
Program Hours
24.5
TOTAL HOURS
8
LIVE HOURS
16
LAB HOURS
Week 1: 90 minutes (30-min orientation + 60-min instruction)
Weeks 2–8: 60 minutes each
All sessions are online
IMPORTANT DATES
2
Applications
Open (Tuesday)
9
Applications Close
11
12
Registration fee due
20
Launch session — both cohorts
COURSE DATES
Launch Session — Cohorts A & B meet together
Saturday, June 20, 2026 · 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM
COHORT A
Wednesdays · 6:30 PM – 7:30 PM
June 24
Wed
July 1
Wed
July 8
Wed
July 15
Wed
July 22
Wed
July 29
Wed
August 5
Final Session
COHORT B
Saturdays · 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM
June 27
Sat
July 11
Sat
July 18
Sat
July 25
Sat
August 1
Sat
August 8
Sat
August 15
Final Session
Minimum Qualifications to Apply
Participation is capped at 30 interpreters total, split into two cohorts of 15.
Admission is by application only.
Must be an OHA-registered interpreter (Qualified or Certified).
Must have no or limited prior experience interpreting in one-to-many simultaneous settings.
Language Pair Matching: Peer-to-peer feedback is an essential component. Applicants may be denied admission if we do not receive at least one other application in the same language pair.
ENROLLMENT
8-WEEK INTENSIVE
$150
No refunds or exchanges
One-time registration fee · due June 12
8.0 live instructor-led Zoom sessions
16.0 Hours of Guided asynchronous labs
Progressive speed ladder: 120 / 140 / 160 WPM
Authentic high-register healthcare discourse
Performance feedback & peer coaching
CCHI Approved
Applications close June 9, 2026
Online via Zoom throughout Oregon
